So, your Taobao phone cases and shoes from Amazon are going to be slapped with a Goods and Services Tax (GST) from 2023.
This announcement came just after the GST was extended to imported digital services (like Spotify and Netflix s streaming services) in January 2020.
Finance Minister Heng Swee Keat said in his 2021 Budget speech that these changes would ensure a level playing field for our local businesses to compete effectively .
All good, but people in Singapore have been shopping online for a while now. So, why did it take so long to levy GST on these low-value imports?
There are certain difficulties that come with taxing suppliers