Additional duties on property transfers into trusts are not meant to be wealth taxes: Chee Hong Tat

Additional duties on property transfers into trusts are not meant to be wealth taxes: Chee Hong Tat

The Straits Times - Singapore·2022-07-05 21:01

SINGAPORE - Additional duties on property transfers and stake transfers in property holding entities to nameless living trusts are not meant to be wealth taxes but are instead part of market cooling measures, Senior Minister of State for Finance Chee Hong Tat said on Tuesday (July 5).

He was responding in Parliament to questions from four MPs about proposed changes in the law aimed at plugging a gap in the existing stamp duty regime.

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