just use msian license in msia and sg otherwhere else

Do you need to show drivers license when renewing road tax?

you don't need a valid driving license to own a car be it in SG or MY.
I bought a car in SG before I even converted my driving license, pretty sure the same applies to MY.

When you get the salinan lesen memandu from JPJ you have to fill up a form, if you state that you need the salinan to get SG driving license then the moment you exit MY customs your MY driving license will be blacklisted. Blacklisted is not the same as "giving up/surrender", but I know some folks manage to retain their MY driving license in active state after getting their SG license ($$ only ma, Msia truly Asia  )

If you are still young and plan to stay in SG for years, just get your SG license and let JPJ blacklist your MY license. SG license is so much better you can drive overseas without getting any letters from JPJ (most countries they allow you to drive as long as your driving license is in English), no expiry date, and you can drive freely in MY.

Encountered roadblocks a few times in KL, show them my MY IC with SG driving license never got any issues. Once or twice kana a few hungry ones trying to be smart say I cannot drive with SG license I just tell them to check AKTA 333 and they let me go. 

No need to give driving license one la to renew. Your runner don't know what they doing.

Who on earth goes to JPJ on their own to renew? You renew car insurance of cos ask your insurance person gaudim everything using their runner mah.

I came to SG 4 years ago still maintain KL car til now. Every year just remit money to insurance company, they will gaudim it and deliver the new road tax disc to my parents.

Like everyone has replied, you DON'T NEED to own a driving license to buy a car. And certainly you don't need to own a driving license to pay your road tax/auto insurance.

Heng ah, lucky I still on leave. Still got 300+ days to go. How is the working world out there?

Not worth at all , to run a car in SG currently is 1k/Month adding up with with other expenses : Road Tax , Insurance , Parking , Fuel , wear and tear + 500 SGD .

so basically prepare 1,500 per month (min) to have a car in SG , you need to run about 3,000km / Month to break even, do you think you can travel 3000km for business in SG ? with the longest run is 50 km (changi to Tuas) .

New or second hand not much diff .

unless your salary is high then I have nothing to say .

If you are new to SG you'll cry yourself out . eg Vios balance 2 year about 30k now , first you need to fork out 15k ( 45k MYR) , then monthly paying around 700 SGD (end of 2nd year you'll get back around 6k) ; of course some will just calculate 30/24 , but in SG to get a loan 50-50 rules kicks in .
sgcarmart.com -> check out the second hand car market here.

Suggest do Taxi claim is much better than this arrangement , it works around < 1k worth of claims and save you from liability of the car .

can always opt for car lease.
not sure who pays for the maintenance though...

5k at least , so you still could have some saving.

30k/24 months  = 1.25k / month

So are you thinking having Malaysian car ... that could work if you stay in Johor .

to be honest if 4k barely make through and can be abit tight 1.5k for car , 1k rental +uti +phone , 800 for meals around 500 - 700 for savings or emergency.

IN such case might as well stay put in places like KL , Johor or Penang , with the same dollar dollar pay at least your car is yours forever and working in a less stress environment.

Means you have been in SG quite some time d ... then you should have the maths behind your head d .

Company normally provide the car if your job require a car. My work don't require a car but my company paid some portion of it because it make them look good. So regret to give in to the trap. The car has depreciate 30% of its value over the years.

Ask them if can use uber... Worth it if can claim the mileage at 70c.

If you really need own car for personal usage anyway, think the deal is good otherwise the expenses are too heavy

Holiday season this thread going very slow

Happy Holidays

Currently working in Australia and was sent up to Singapore to work for a few weeks. Good exposure to the different working culture, I have to say the Singaporeans and the people working here are so hardworking compared to the Aussies.

Anyone here bought Kopitiam card?

I wonder how it works? Who will bear the 10% discount? The stall owner or Kopitiam?

Malaysia should implement this lol..

Can I ask anything  that we need to do before we officially  moved to Sg to work? Any gov department  that I need to report to?

If I have worked  in Malaysia for this year, do I need to submit  the income tax or my Malaysia company will  take care of it?

And  when we start to work  in Sg, what we need to do for the Malaysian  tax? Since I do intend to purchase  house for my parents in the next year