REAL ESTATE AND TAXATION IN SINGAPORE

Real Estate and Taxation in Singapore provides a multi-disciplinary approach to the subject for Singapore real estate and tax aficionados. The book helps the reader to navigate the complex world of real estate taxation by taking them through the various changes in the Singapore real estate market over the years, as well as the property development and investment life cycle from acquisition and development, to investment and ownership, to disposal.

The book primarily focuses on tax issues — income tax, stamp duty, property tax and goods and services tax — faced by property developers and investors in Singapore. It further explains the tax and non-tax aspects of topics relating to the Master Plan, development charge and differential premium, the real estate market cooling measures, as well as real estate investment trusts and funds.

It is an all-in-one, 'must-have' reference book for professionals, policy-makers, academia, students and the general public who are interested in the field of real estate and taxation.

Contents:

• Takings and Givings: Transformational Role in Real Estate Landscape
• Property Market Cycles: Fiscal and Macroprudential Measures
• Master Plan: From Blueprint to Guide
• Real Estate Developers: A Much Regulated Sector
• Property Investment: Deriving Long-Term Recurrent Income
• Acquisition and Disposal of Real Estate: Asset Sale Transactions
• Acquisition and Disposal of Real Estate Holding Entities: Equity Sale Transactions
• Singapore Real Estate Investment Trusts: 20 Years of Phenomenal Growth
• Business Trusts: The Alternative to REITs?
• Private Real Estate Funds: A Platform to Enhance Value

Readership: Undergraduate and postgraduate students, researchers, tax practitioners and policy-makers who are interested in real estate and/or tax.

Key Features:

• Real Estate and Taxation in Singapore is an all-in-one book which cuts across different disciplines including real estate, tax, law, history, policy-making, property development and investment. The multi-disciplinary approach adopted by the authors allows the readers to have an in-depth appreciation of the interface between real estate and taxation
• It is the first of its kind which examines, from the lenses of tax practitioners, the government policies introduced over the years to curb excessive volatilities during different phases of the Singapore property market cycle, and how these policies have shaped the tax regime in Singapore
• The book also traces the property development and investment life cycle, with a holistic focus on the income tax, stamp duty, property tax and goods and services tax implications associated with property acquisition, development, ownership, investment and disposal