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10 Ways to Reduce Your Personal Income Tax in Singapore for YA 2025
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What Are the CPF Basic, Full & Enhanced Retirement Sum and How Do They Affect Your Retirement?
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Going Freelance? Here’s How You Should Plan Your CPF & Finances For 2023
Back when I started freelancing full-time in 2014, the only friends who were free to meet up with me at ...
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HDB Grants Guide 2022 — What’s the Max CPF Housing Grant You Can Get?
If you’re buying an HDB flat in Singapore for the first time, you’re just beginning to realise how much ...
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What is SRS Account – Supplementary Retirement Scheme? Guide to Opening SRS Account
I’ve been dreaming about retirement since the day I started working. So the Supplementary Retirement Scheme ...
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Using Your CPF to Purchase Property? 3 Important Facts to Know (2022)
You don’t have to wait till you’re old and wizened to use the money in your CPF account. The first time ...
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CPF LIFE: The Complete Guide to Payouts, Plans & Minimum Sums in 2022
If you’re in your 30s like I am, retiring in Singapore is the stuff of nightmares. By the time our retirement ...
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Here’s Why the Basic Retirement Sum Isn’t Something Singaporeans Should Be Worrying About
Depending on who you believe, you may think our CPF savings are like Russia. You know it’s there, I know ...
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We’ve come a long way from the GiveMeBackMyCPF days. Now that Covid-19 has thrown the stock market into ...
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There was a time when #givemebackmycpf was a thing. These days, people are voluntarily giving their money ...
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4 Ways Multiplier Account Rewards You As You Work Towards Your Financial Goals
This post was written in collaboration with DBS. While we are financially compensated by them, we nonetheless ...
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[UPDATED] Budget 2020 Highlights — 10 Key Announcements To Note
I have to admit — I’m quite impressed by the Budget 2020 announcement by Deputy Prime Minister and Finance ...
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University and polytechnic fees in Singapore are not cheap. The good news is that if your parents are unable ...
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Shortly after Singapore’s 54th birthday, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong made his National Day Rally 2019 ...
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