Strategic Tax Considerations for Singapore Businesses: Restructuring, Repatriation, and Cross-Border Mobility


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Date:
27 August 2025, Wednesday

Time:
09.00AM - 12.30PM
Venue:
ISCA House
60 Cecil Street
Singapore 049709

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Programme Synopsis

Join ISCA for this seminar where, through real-world case studies, participants will explore common tax challenges, such as business structuring, profit repatriation, intercompany financing and expatriate relocation, which are highly relevant to both MNCs and local corporate groups.

Programme Outline

A Highlight of Key Areas:
  • Tax considerations on restructuring
    - Strategies to optimise the effective tax rate
    - Potential alternatives to mitigate the Singapore tax exposure at group level (i.e. incentive, review of licensing arrangements or holding structures etc)
    - Potential alternatives to mitigate the Singapore tax exposure at entity level (i.e. tax deductibility on certain expense etc)
    - Tax implications for shareholders

  •  Repatriation of profit
    - Potential alternatives for profit repatriation including dividend, buyback, capital reduction, merger and liquidation

  • Tax considerations on intercompany financing
    - Application of the arm’s length principle to intercompany financing
    - Tax deductibility of interest expenses.

  • Tax considerations on relocation of expatriates
    - Determination of Singapore tax residency status
    - Requirements for obtaining a Singapore certificate of resident
    - Overview of basic of Singapore personal tax rates and reliefs (i.e. earned income relief, spouse relief, etc.);
    - Tax credit refund for overseas taxed employment income;
    - Evaluation of permanent establishment risks arising from expatriate presence in Singapore

About the Presenter(s)/ Trainer(s)


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Mr Dilpreet Singh Obhan
Tax Partner
Dhruva Singapore
Accredited Tax Advisor (Income Tax)


Dilpreet is a Tax Partner at Dhruva Advisors, based in Singapore, with over 20 years of extensive experience in tax compliance and consulting for both local and multinational companies. He is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI), an associate member of the Institute of Singapore Chartered Accountants (ISCA), and an Accredited Tax Advisor with the Singapore Chartered Tax Professionals (SCTP).

Dilpreet specializes in a broad range of areas including tax-effective structuring for acquisitions and disposals, tax due diligence, post-acquisition structuring, inbound and outbound investments, and international tax advisory. His expertise also covers tax-efficient supply chain planning, group reorganizations, withholding tax matters, and the negotiation and application of tax incentives with government agencies.

He has advised clients across diverse sectors such as funds, consumer and retail, healthcare, life sciences, education, telecommunications, e-commerce, logistics, transportation, services, construction, and manufacturing.

A regular speaker at taxation seminars and workshops, Dilpreet has also served as a lecturer for the Tax Programme at the Tax Academy of Singapore. Prior to joining Dhruva, he held senior roles at leading global accounting firms including KPMG, Ernst & Young, and Arthur Andersen.








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