{"id":632,"date":"2018-07-18T07:32:14","date_gmt":"2018-07-17T23:32:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ehluar.com\/main\/?p=632"},"modified":"2018-07-18T07:32:14","modified_gmt":"2018-07-17T23:32:14","slug":"clarifications-to-the-tourist-refund-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ehluar.com\/main\/2018\/07\/18\/clarifications-to-the-tourist-refund-scheme\/","title":{"rendered":"Clarifications to the Tourist Refund Scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"hP\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">On 17 July 2018, the Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore (IRAS) has clarified that a refund of GST paid on goods through the tourist refund scheme can only be requested by someone who is the purchaser of the goods. Alipay has also been accepted as a new mode of payment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"hP\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The following e-Tax Guides are also revised together with various changes:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul class=\"none\">\n<li class=\"hP none\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><i>GST: For Retailers participating in Tourist Refund Scheme (Eighth edition)<\/i><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"hP none\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><i>GST: Guide For Visitors on Tourist Refund Scheme (Seventh edition), and<\/i><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"hP none\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><i>GST: The Electronic Tourist Refund Scheme (eTRS) (Thirteenth edition).<\/i><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"hP\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Referencing to the eTRS has also been amended and applied consistently throughout the e-Tax Guides.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"hP\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">An FAQ has also been issued to help address various issues concerning the eTRS.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"hP\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Source: <i>IRAS<\/i>, 18 July 2018<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 17 July 2018, the Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore (IRAS) has clarified that a refund of GST paid on goods through the tourist refund scheme can only be requested by someone who is the purchaser of the goods. Alipay has also been accepted as a new mode of payment. The following e-Tax Guides are [&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":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gst","category-techupdates"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ehluar.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632","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=632"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/ehluar.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":633,"href":"http:\/\/ehluar.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632\/revisions\/633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ehluar.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ehluar.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ehluar.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}