Just confirming, Malaysians can stay in Singapore for 30 days? If I exhaust the allowed stay period there, would it be more practical to apply for a longer visit pass or to exit and re-enter the country?

Think u can extend your stay for another 30 days....after that u have to exit..there's like a max stay of 60 days in at 90 days period...then not sure if there's a cooling off period.

Try this link
http://www.ica.gov.sg/services_centre_over...aspx?pageid=376

Please do some homework......

Just go for a pantry raid ler. Im sure you have some cup noodles lying around.

I know you guys here must be tired of answering the same things again and again, but thanks for the affirmation

Finally I gt a job offer.
Now I have to find a room near to Jurong East station, which website do u recommend to find those room advs?

Wah, wat job u got offered?

Ok I thought u r referring to Spore side just now.
I believed there must be clear guide on this whether submission is compulsory regardless of the amount or not. And certainly as well for exact amount exempted (20k? 22k?). But I might be wrong tho. Need to dig further on this for details.

I do my submission for BOTH sides..regardless of the amount....better to be safe than sorry....

Malaysia side, the proper way to do it is get a CP-21 form from your company, then take that to LHDN and close off your tax file. Then u no need to worry to file anymore until you decide to move back to Malaysia.

application engineer, the whole interview process + waiting take around 1 month~

Yup, understood on that.
The reason I'm asking is becoz I tried filling the Form M (non-resident), even if I put 19k, it still calculated there that I need to pay tax 15% of that total amount. Which means the relief of below 20k is not automatically done by the system. Therefore in order to get the relief meaning I need to declare as 0 income for that particular year in the form then only it calculate 0 tax to be paid. So is this the correct way? Becoz as I recall when I'm doing e-filling for Msia last time eventhough I'm still not eligible for paying tax at that time, I just put actual figure I earned that year then it will automatically shown in the system that I do not required to pay any tax amount. Different system I guess? But how can Spore system less advance than Msia, made me curious. Sorry

Furthermore I couldn't find any details in IRAS website as well regarding relief of tax for income less than 20k except for appended below. (My sincere apology if I had missed on that somewhere)

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If You are Here for 61 Days to 182 Days in a Year
You will be regarded as a non-resident. The number of days in Singapore include weekends and public holidays.

As a non-resident:

You will only be taxed on all income earned in Singapore.
You will not be entitled to tax reliefs.
Your employment income will be taxed at a flat rate of 15% or the progressive resident rates depending on which results in a higher tax.
Director's fees and other income such as rent earned in or derived from Singapore will be taxed at the prevailing rate of 20%.
You are required to fill in Form M (Income Tax Return for Non-Residents)
Unquote

This post has been edited by ashland: Aug 3 2011, 04:07 PM

^ Or it means you will be taxed no matter how little you earn if you are here for less than 183 days?

This post has been edited by crazy25kid: Aug 3 2011, 04:04 PM

That's what I want to confirm becoz I've read few post before mentioning that we do not require to pay tax if we work less than 183 days + total income for that period <SGD20K, which I do hope so

Sadly it isnt........based on this calculator in excel which i've downloaded from IRAS websiteNon-resident tax calculator

For example...if you earn SGD20k....as a non-resident your tax will be at SGD3k....at the flat rate of 15%

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This post has been edited by tailtwist: Aug 3 2011, 04:19 PM

To follow up on my earlier question on paying income tax with GIRO, just received my GIRO instalment schedule from my company's payroll dept. I set up the GIRO payment using internet banking on Jul 19, and the schedule from IRAS is dated Jul 22. That's pretty fast, only 3 days to respond. However, my company's payroll people sat on it for 2 weeks!

Anyway, IRAS split up the amount into 8 instalments from Sept11 to Apr12. Something about full payment for each prior year must be made by April.

The flat rate of 15% is heavy, machiam "tai yee loong"......

Someone was looking for GIRO branch codes earlier. Just remembered I had bookmarked this page previously:

http://www.hsbc.com.sg/1/2/miscellaneous/p...anch-codes#bank

Later can get refund if subsequent year still working in singapore.

How do they calculate the refund?

Did anyone see the 8TV Ramadan PSA (Public Service Announcements) that created a firestorm online?

https://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/8tvfb