International Assignment Express - Archive

International Assignment Express (formerly known as Personal Tax Express) is an electronic series of taxation updates produced by the International Assignments Services (IAS) team in PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC). As the name implies, we provide short yet sharp highlights on issues relating to personal taxation in Singapore.

Issue 3 - December 2006

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Following the second issue of the Personal Tax Express in July 2006, we are pleased to share with you the third issue of this electronic series of personal taxation updates produced by the International Assignments Solution (IAS) team in PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC).

This issue focuses on personal taxation implications of deploying employees across international borders as well as corporate tax deduction for global employee stock plans. A summary of some of the updates include:

  • Ensuring your international assignments are compliant with tax and legal requirements
  • Maximising your corporate tax deduction on shares issued by the parent company to employees in the Singapore entity
  • Implementing a consistent and transparent international assignment tax policy
  • Achieving operational gains and cost savings through a shared service centre
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Issue 2 - July 2006

We are pleased to share with you the second issue where we look at areas in:

  • Singapore Permanent Residence (PR) status for foreign employees
  • Foreign deployment of employees to the UK
  • Implications of the Indian Fringe Benefit Tax (FBT) for postings to India
  • Expansion into new territories made easy






Personal Tax Express


Issue 1 - April 2006

In this Issue, we look at areas in:

  • retirement, retention and tax savings
  • employee stock plans
  • expatriate cost and effectiveness
  • IRAS' new benefit-in-kind rules