{"id":2197,"date":"2024-10-02T17:47:41","date_gmt":"2024-10-02T09:47:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ehluar.com\/main\/?p=2197"},"modified":"2025-08-11T17:50:46","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T09:50:46","slug":"gst-exemption-list-for-public-agency-supplies-expanded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ehluar.com\/main\/2024\/10\/02\/gst-exemption-list-for-public-agency-supplies-expanded\/","title":{"rendered":"GST Exemption List for Public Agency Supplies Expanded"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Significant amendments to Singapore&#8217;s Goods and Services Tax (GST) regulations concerning public agency supplies came into effect yesterday, 1 October 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The <em>Goods and Services Tax (Non-taxable Public Agency Supplies) (Amendment No. 2) Order 2024<\/em> officially expands the scope of supplies made by public agencies that are exempt from GST under the Goods and Services Tax Act 1993.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Key Changes:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol start=\"1\" class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Expanded Exemption List:<\/strong> The Order amends the principal Goods and Services Tax (Non-taxable Public Agency Supplies) Order 2024. It specifically broadens the Schedule listing the types of taxable supplies made by public agencies that are <em>not subject to GST.<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Clarification on License\/Permit Terminology:<\/strong> The Amendment Order introduces an <em>elaboration<\/em> defining the meaning of the phrase &#8220;application for or to renew any licence, permit, permission, authorisation, approval, certification, certificate, recognition, exemption or appointment&#8221; as it appears within the Schedule. This clarification aims to ensure consistent interpretation and application of the exemption rules.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>This legislative change directly impacts transactions involving the specified public agency supplies. Businesses and individuals procuring these newly listed or clarified services from public agencies <em>will not be charged GST<\/em> on them from 1 October 2024 onwards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> Government Gazette, 1 October 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Significant amendments to Singapore&#8217;s Goods and Services Tax (GST) regulations concerning public agency supplies came into effect yesterday, 1 October 2024. The Goods and Services Tax (Non-taxable Public Agency Supplies) (Amendment No. 2) Order 2024 officially expands the scope of supplies made by public agencies that are exempt from GST under the Goods and Services [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,9,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accounting","category-gst","category-techupdates"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ehluar.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ehluar.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ehluar.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ehluar.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ehluar.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2197"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/ehluar.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2198,"href":"http:\/\/ehluar.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2197\/revisions\/2198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ehluar.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ehluar.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ehluar.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}