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Taxes · IRAS

Childcare and Student-Care Subsidies: Different Tax Treatment

The exemption depends on a licensed childcare centre; student care has a separate taxable treatment.

Source checked · 11 October 2026

Check the centre category

An employer subsidy for an employee’s child at a centre licensed under the Early Childhood Development Centres Act 2017 is not taxable. The source points to LifeSG for licensed centres. Student care is not included in that statutory childcare-centre definition, so an employer’s student-care subsidy is taxable. Confirm the centre’s actual category before applying the payroll treatment.

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