Deep Dive into GST Insights for S-REITs/ S-RBTs


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Hear from a former Big 4 partner.
Date:
20 August 2025, Wednesday

Time:
09.00AM - 05.00PM
Venue:
Sheraton Hotel (near Newton MRT)

Details/ Promotion:
Please email the organiser here for more details and to register.
Accredited tax professionals enjoy special rate: $513 (incl. GST) (For SCTP members), $540 (incl. GST) (For non-SCTP members)
Inclusive of course materials, e-certificate, buffet lunch, tea breaks and refreshments.
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Programme Synopsis

The Budget 2025 announced the 5-year extension of the GST concession for Singapore listed Real Estate Investment Trusts (S-REITs), their special purpose vehicles (SPVs), and Singapore listed Registered Business Trusts (S-RBTs) to 31 December 2030.  Over the years there have been changes to the GST legislations such as the introduction of reverse charge regime with effect from 1 January 2020 and the extension of the reverse charge regime to low-value goods with effect from 1 January 2023.  It is important to understand how these recent GST developments and IRAS updates affect the GST compliance of S-REITs/S-RBTs.

Besides, if the S-REIT/S-RBT has been awarded ACAP status, one of the requirements is for the compliance team to attend periodic training to keep abreast with the latest development of GST legislation and practices.  To this end, this one-day GST seminar specific to S-REITs/S-RBT is to equip the team handling the GST compliance of S-REITs/S-RBTs with update and knowledge.

Led by an experienced advisor who has advised on REITs and RBTs since the introduction of these legal structures, this seminar includes case-study on the input tax computations for REITs with multi-tier structure, common errors faced and controls that should be put in place to avoid errors.

To register, please email the following information to info@aep-advisory.com:
  1. Company's Name
  2. Office Address
  3. Delegate's Name
  4. Designation
  5. Telephone
  6. Email
  7. SCTP Membership Number

Programme Outline

A Highlight of Key Areas:
  • Latest developments on GST concessions applicable to S-REITs / S-RBTs
  • GST implications of exempt supplies not listed in Regulation 33
  • When the "look-through" GST treatment does not apply
  • How the reverse charge regime and its extension to low-value goods impact your S-REIT or S-RBT
  • Attribution of input tax and apportionment of residual input tax
  • Common pitfalls
  • Key compliance changes including the removal of the need to submit the Statement of Claims along with the submission of GST return
  • Case studies

About the Presenter(s)/ Trainer(s)


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Ms Gan Hwee Leng
Tax Partner
Alliance of Associated Advisors (AAA) Pte. Ltd. 
Accredited Tax Advisor (Income Tax & GST) and Chartered Accountant (Singapore)


Hwee Leng is a partner in Alliance of Associated Advisors (AAA) Pte. Ltd. (an entity under AEP LLP), a tax consulting firm, with extensive experience in Goods and Services Tax (GST) matters, both as a regulator and business adviser. She retired as a partner from the Indirect Tax Practice at a big four accounting firm (KPMG) in 2022 and remained a consultant with KPMG until September 2024. Prior to her consulting career, Hwee Leng has been with the IRAS for 15 years, involved in tax policy matters on GST as well as corporate tax, advance income tax ruling, international taxation, transfer pricing and tax treaties. Hwee Leng was also part of the GST implementation team in the IRAS and involved in the drafting of the various circulars on the operation of GST, the GST legislation, schemes for businesses and the marketing of GST to the public and businesses and audit of businesses. 

Hwee Leng is one of the contributors to the “Goods and Services Tax – Law & Practice, 2nd edition” and a co-author of “Taxation of Insurance Business in Singapore – Direct and Indirect Taxation”. She has been recognised as one of the leading tax practitioners by the International Tax Review, and one of the leading women tax practitioners by the International Tax Review in the past few years.

In addition to her consultancy work, Hwee Leng is a trainer at the Singapore Tax Academy and a regular speaker at tax seminars. She has also represented KPMG to attend the OECD Technical Advisory Group / Business and Industry Advisory Committee meetings and was a member of the KPMG Global Indirect Tax Services Policy Group.








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