From incorporation to the annual return, and the tax and structuring questions in between, for founders, foreign companies and growing groups.
Most engagements begin with one of six situations. Each has its own first-year decisions, and the order you take them in matters.
Local or foreign founders setting up a private limited company: name, directors, shares, bank account and the first year of filings.
Incorporation through our licensed partner, registered office, company secretary, compliance calendar.
How we handle this
A parent company abroad and a new Singapore entity that has to satisfy regulators at home and here from the first filing.
Structure, resident director, accounts that consolidate cleanly into the parent's.
How we handle this
Bookkeeping, tax and annual filings handled on a calendar, or a clean switch from your current provider.
Monthly accounts, ECI and Form C-S, AGM and annual return, GST returns.
How we handle this
An Indian parent, Indian founders or a team in India. The questions run across two tax systems, and this is our deepest specialism.
ODI with your Indian CA, POEM and tax residence, transfer pricing, dividends to India.
Our India practice
A Singapore fund vehicle and management company seeking a tax incentive under section 13O or 13U, without us managing the money.
Structure, MAS application support, accounting, annual reporting to the conditions.
How we handle this
An acquisition to account for, share options to value, or a fund raise or restructuring that needs a number you can defend.
Purchase price allocation, ESOP and share valuations, deal support.
How we handle thisSingapore taxes company profits at 17%, but exemptions cut the effective rate sharply in the early years. A qualifying start-up gets the larger exemption for its first three years of assessment.
To qualify, a company needs no more than 20 shareholders, all individuals or at least one individual holding 10% or more. Investment holding and property development companies are excluded, and a subsidiary wholly owned by another company usually fails the test.
Read the guideSix services, one team accountable for all of them. Regulated corporate services come through our licensed partner; we coordinate them so you deal with one firm.
Company set-up, secretary, registered office and nominee director, from formation to annual return.
Provided by our ACRA-registered corporate service provider partner.
Monthly books, management accounts, year-end financial statements and XBRL filing.
ECI, Form C-S and Form C, GST registration and returns, and the tax computation behind each.
Holding structures, transfer pricing, treaty claims and the board practices that keep residence where you intend it.
Purchase price allocation, ESOP and share valuations, and valuations for restructuring and fund raising.
Set-up and ongoing administration for single family offices under sections 13O and 13U.
Many of our clients are Indian groups and founders. Their Singapore company sits inside two tax systems, and most problems start where the two meet: overseas investment rules, tax residence, transfer pricing and dividends back to India.
We handle the Singapore side and work alongside your Indian chartered accountant, supported by our shared services centre in Gurugram.
Fees are fixed before work starts. If the scope changes, we agree the change in writing first.
A call on your structure, your deadlines and what is already in place.
A written scope, a fixed fee and a timetable, agreed before any work starts.
Due diligence, system access and a shared compliance calendar with any other advisers you use.
Work delivered on the calendar, with a review of the year and the next one before each year end.
Northwise is a Singapore company with a shared services centre in India. Advice, client relationships and every filing come from Singapore.
Client relationships, tax and structuring advice, and every filing with ACRA and IRAS.
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Guides written for founders and finance teams, each with its sources and the date it was last reviewed.
TaxHow the 17% rate, the two exemption schemes and the YA2026 rebate work in your first years, with worked figures, and why an India-owned subsidiary usually gets the smaller exemption.
ComplianceThe registers, appointments, set-ups and filings a new company needs in its first twelve months, with the India-side items for Indian parents.
India practiceTwo tax authorities ask the same question from opposite ends. India asks whether your Singapore company is really run from India. Singapore asks whether it is really run from Singapore. You need the right answer for both.
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