Setting Up a Business in Singapore

An in-depth guide for foreign entrepreneurs and companies looking to enter the Singapore market — a genuinely efficient, low-tax hub and one of the easiest jurisdictions in the world in which to register a company.
This guide covers legal structures (Private Limited Company, branch, representative office, and LLP), business taxation — including a 17% corporate rate, a startup exemption, and 9% GST — company formation via ACRA and BizFile+, the cost of labor (CPF contributions, the Progressive Wage Model, and the Foreign Worker Levy), and immigration routes for executives, investors, and entrepreneurs, including the Employment Pass, EntrePass, ONE Pass, and S Pass. Includes an explicit warning on economic substance requirements — a company with no local staff, no real office, and only a nominee director is exactly the profile now flagged by banks and regulators — an operational checklist, and useful contacts.
Available in English.