Friday 17 February 2012

Investment grade gold exempted from GST.

As part of Singapore's Budget for 2012 announced by finance minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam, "Singapore is set to capitalise on the strong demand in Asia for gold as an asset. The government is exempting investment-grade gold and other precious metals traded as financial assets, from the goods and services tax (GST). This is already being done in a number of other countries such as Australia, the UK and Switzerland."

About time.

2 comments:

Singapore Man of Leisure said...

Better late than never ;)

I am smiling.

AK71 said...

All as well that I have not been buying physical gold for more than a year. So, I guess I should be smiling too. :)