Income Tax (Exemption of Income of Approved Venture Company) Regulations

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Current version
as at 30 Apr 2025

1 Citation

Income Tax Act

(Chapter 134, Section 13H)

Income Tax (Exemption of Income of Approved Venture Company) Regulations

Rg 22

G.N. No. S 481/1993

REVISED EDITION 2001

(31st May 2001)

[3rd December 1993]

Citation

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Income Tax (Exemption of Income of Approved Venture Company) Regulations and shall have effect for the year of assessment 1994 and subsequent years of assessment.

Exemption

2.—(1) Subject to these Regulations and section 13G of the Act, the specified income of an approved venture company derived by it from any approved investment shall be exempt from tax.

[S 678/2016 wef 27/12/2016]

[S 306/2024 wef 31/12/2021]

(2) The exemption from tax under paragraph (1) in respect of the approved venture company shall be for such period as the Minister, or an authorised body, may specify.

[S 678/2016 wef 27/12/2016]

[S 306/2024 wef 12/04/2024]

(3) Paragraph (1) shall apply in relation to an approved venture company from such date as the Minister, or an authorised body, may specify.

[S 306/2024 wef 12/04/2024]

Determination of specified income

3. For the purposes of determining the specified income of an approved venture company under these Regulations —

(a)

in computing the gains or losses of the company from the disposal of any approved investment, the approved investment purchased by the company on an earlier date shall be deemed to have been disposed of first;

(b)

“specified income” means —

(i)	dividends derived from outside Singapore and received by the company in Singapore from approved investments in any company not resident in Singapore;
(ii)	interest derived from outside Singapore and received by the company in Singapore in respect of any approved convertible loan stock of a company not resident in Singapore; and
(iii)	gains or profits derived from Singapore or received by the company in Singapore from outside Singapore from the disposal of any approved investment. [G.N. Nos. S 481/93; S264/99]

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