Corporate Secretarial
Annual returns, registers, resolutions and the deadlines that carry penalties, monitored and filed by your named corporate secretary before they fall due. This page explains what a Singapore company owes the regulator every year.
A private company’s year runs off its financial year end. Financial statements must be prepared and laid before members, the AGM held or dispensed with within six months of FYE, and the annual return filed within seven months. Alongside the ACRA track runs the IRAS track: estimated chargeable income within three months of FYE and the corporate tax return by 30 November. GST-registered companies add quarterly returns. Any change in directors, secretary, address or share capital triggers its own filing window, some as short as 14 days. Missing any of these attracts penalties that grow with delay.
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At minimum: AGM or written resolutions within six months of FYE, annual return within seven months, ECI within three months, and the tax return by 30 November. GST-registered businesses add quarterly filings.
A statutory register of the individuals or entities that ultimately own or control the company, generally those above 25 percent ownership or control. It must be kept current and lodged with ACRA.
We regularise it: compute the penalties, prepare the outstanding filings and bring the record clean, then keep it that way. Late is fixable; ignored is what becomes expensive.
Yes. Dormant companies still file annual returns and tax returns, though simplified. If the company has genuinely finished its purpose, a clean strike-off often costs less than years of dormant compliance.
The directors, personally. A good secretary keeps directors out of that firing line, which is precisely the service.
Yes. Multi-entity groups get one consolidated compliance calendar so every company’s dates are visible in one place.
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