{"id":9510,"date":"2017-03-21T15:01:32","date_gmt":"2017-03-21T07:01:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.99.co\/blog\/singapore\/?p=9510"},"modified":"2022-07-01T04:06:26","modified_gmt":"2022-06-30T20:06:26","slug":"stamp-duty-loophole-closing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.99.co\/singapore\/insider\/stamp-duty-loophole-closing\/","title":{"rendered":"Stamp duty loophole: What closing it might mean for property buyers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"bsf_rt_marker\"><\/div><figure id=\"attachment_9512\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9512\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-9512\" src=\"https:\/\/www.99.co\/singapore\/insider\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/stamp-duty-loophole.jpg\" alt=\"Closing the stamp duty loophole would bring severe ramifications to developers and foreign buyers alike\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.99.co\/singapore\/insider\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/stamp-duty-loophole.jpg 920w, https:\/\/www.99.co\/singapore\/insider\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/stamp-duty-loophole-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.99.co\/singapore\/insider\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/stamp-duty-loophole-440x294.jpg 440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9512\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Closing the stamp duty loophole would bring severe ramifications to developers and foreign buyers alike<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Minister of National Development Lawrence Wong panicked some property buyers and developers earlier this month with an important announcement. The Minister mentioned that: <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;In principle, we should treat transactions in residential property on the same basis, regardless of whether a property is transferred directly or through a transfer of shares in a company whose primary business is in residential property in Singapore.&#8221; <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Minister is referring to a stamp duty loophole, which currently allows property buyers to bypass stamp duties. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Here\u2019s what it all means.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>What is the stamp duty loophole that is being addressed?<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There is currently a stamp duty loophole, that allows property buyers to dodge the Buyers Stamp Duty (BSD) and Additional Buyers Stamp Duty (ABSD). This involves the sale of the property to a corporate entity (often just a shell company), and then buying over the shares in the company. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Picture this:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Say you want to buy a property, which costs $2 million. (This stamp duty loophole is actually used for the purchase of multiple properties, up to several hundred million dollars, but we are using a simplified example here).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As you are a foreigner, you would pay 18 percent in stamp duties (3 percent BSD, and 15 percent ABSD). That comes to around $360,000.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Instead of paying this steep sum however, you and the developer devise a workaround. The property is sold for $2 million to a shell company, which is cheap and easy to set up. You then buy up the shares in this company, which also gives you ownership of the property as you now own the company.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Now the tax involved is just 2 percent of the company\u2019s Net Asset Value. Let\u2019s say, for simple purposes, the company\u2019s sole asset is the $2 million house that also defines its Net Asset Value. Your tax is 0.2 percent of this, or $4,000. You save $356,000 by buying the property through the company.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It\u2019s not <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">exactly <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">this simple, but this should give you a general idea of how it works: you are buying shares in a company that owns the property, rather than the property itself. Therefore, there is no BSD or ABSD, as you are not officially buying any property.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One example of this occurred at <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.99.co\/singapore\/condos-apartments\/the-nassim\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Nassim<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in January this year. Banker Wee Cho Yao purchased 45 units in this development, for $411.6 million. However, the property was not sold directly to him, but to a company (Nassim Hill Realty). He then purchased a 100 percent stake in Nassim Hill Realty, effectively gaining ownership of The Nassim without paying stamp duties.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>What does the government intend to do about this?<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We don\u2019t know the specific details. All we know is that legislative measures will be taken, to amend the rules somehow. One of the things Minister Wong mentioned was that:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201c\u2026significant owners of residential-property-holding entities will be subject to the usual stamp duties when they transfer equity interest in such entities, like what would happen if they were to buy or sell the properties directly\u201d. <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This suggests that, if someone purchases a big stake in a company that owns property, they might be taxed as if they had bought the property directly. <\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>What impact could this have?<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Potential rule changes will be a worry to developers, some of whom have bought properties via shell companies. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There have been many developers who set up companies to bulk buy their own properties, to avoid <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.99.co\/singapore\/insider\/qualifying-certificate-qc-scheme-can-lead-discounts-much-absd\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Qualifying Charges<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (QC). The QC imposes additional taxes, based on the price of the land, for <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.99.co\/singapore\/insider\/condo-buying-absd-deadline\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">developers that cannot complete and sell their properties within a given time limit<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">By purchasing the properties in bulk via a shell company, developers could mark the properties as being officially \u201csold.\u201d This spared them the prospect of paying QC charges, and gave them the opportunity to sell in a way that wouldn\u2019t saddle their buyers with stamp duties.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The opportunity to do this could soon be gone, depending on how the rule changes take place. The loss of the stamp duty loophole would mean an added burden on some developers, who are already struggling in the slow market.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Another source of worry is for companies and investors that don\u2019t intend to exploit this stamp duty loophole, but could be affected anyway. For example, a company may invest in residential properties as part of a wider portfolio of assets, to earn returns for its various investors. It remains to be seen if investors with a big stake will end up being asked to pay stamp duties, even if it is not their intention to own property via a fund.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This will have to be a complex piece of legislation, with many exceptions and potentially difficult definitions. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As can be expected, developers of high-end properties are not happy. This stamp duty loophole is often used for luxury developments, where the majority of buyers are foreigners facing ABSD charges. This is likely to dissuade buyers, and slow sales even more.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is currently a stamp duty loophole, that allows property buyers to dodge paying taxes. 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