For many family businesses, sustaining prosperity for the long run depends on how well they plan transfers of business assets and family wealth from one generation to the next.
Beyond the emotional concerns these transfers entail, tax, legal and a host of other issues come into play. Today, these issues are multiplying as the pandemic lingers, geopolitical tensions run high, recession looms, and technology opens opportunities for new business models and ways of doing business.
Taxing family business transfers: a world of differences
In this report, KPMG Private Enterprise advisers offer a snapshot of the domestic tax rules governing family business transfers and provide a detailed analysis of the outcomes of two case studies in which the shares in a family business are transferred on the owner’s death (inheritance) and in which the transfer happens during the owner’s lifetime (gifting).
With more business families globalising, family members more globally mobile, and assets being diversified geographically, it’s imperative that family businesses consider the tax implications, as well as business and personal factors when planning a family business transfer.
View our interactive analysis and compare tax implications across 57 jurisdictions worldwide.
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Domestic tax rules are only one factor helping to drive succession, investment and business planning. For broader context, this year’s report surveys the lay of the land for today’s business families, with insights on some of their biggest risks and priorities distilled from interviews with KPMG Private Enterprise leaders and advisers in selected countries, territories and jurisdictions.
Top global trends influencing business family planning
Global family business tax monitor 2023 gathers insights from KPMG Private Enterprise advisers worldwide, highlighting three emerging trends that business families should consider as they develop their long-term plans for their businesses and their wealth.
Summary notes: Singapore
Minimal tax due
- Singapore has no inheritance or gift tax.
- There should be no personal income tax implications for the child as the gain arising from the inheritance should arguably be treated as capital in nature and not taxable (as capital gains are not taxable in Singapore).
- Stamp duty may arise on the transfer of shares in a Singapore company by gift, based on 0.2% of the transfer consideration or value of the shares — whichever is higher. Where the company holds immovable property, that property’s market value is used instead of book value when determining the value of the shares.
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