Service location is the first question
Payments for management services or business-management assistance include routine support services. The chart starts by asking whether services are performed outside Singapore. For Singapore services, examine treaty residence and whether the relevant treaty requires a PE for source taxation; treaty-specific personal-service exceptions must be considered. Australia’s company-service interpretation from May 2018 and Korea’s revised treaty from January 2020 are expressly noted.
The reimbursement label is insufficient
The chart’s related-party cost-pooling exception is expressly limited to amounts liable to be paid on or before 31 October 2022. It is not a continuing blanket exemption for reimbursements. Document service location, the cost-pooling arrangement where historically relevant, treaty eligibility and PE facts, then determine whether filing and withholding apply. Current payments must use the current legislation and applicable treaty rather than carry the expired concession forward.
Official source
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