Dentons’ Trusts, Estates and Wealth Preservation Group has the experience and expertise to handle planning of any level of complexity, to carry out our clients’ wishes and bring about the orderly transfer of wealth during life or at death. Regardless of a client’s net worth, planning revolves around specific desires, circumstances and when appropriate, problems.

We offer tax and planning advice for local jurisdictions, but can also provide planning that encompasses the needs of clients who have assets or beneficiaries in most any part of the globe.

Today’s families are complex. Dentons helps clients devise and structure plans that pass wealth from one generation to the next, meet clients’ particular desires, account for the complicated present or potential problems of beneficiaries and the complex nature of the assets involved, and minimize transfer taxes.

Insights

Budget 2025 tax developments

February 26, 2025

Singapore: Singapore’s Budget 2025 introduces strategic measures to position itself amid political and economic uncertainties. In this article, we offer insights into the significant tax changes affecting multi-national enterprises and high-net-worth individuals.

Advance Decision on Life-Sustaining Treatment Bill: a step towards patient autonomy

November 26, 2024

Hong Kong: Currently, Hong Kong lacks specific laws regulating Advance Medical Directives (AMDs) and Do Not Attempt Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (DNACPR) orders, despite AMDs being acknowledged under common law.

Quick profits from buy-sell property transactions – An analysis of GIO v Comptroller of Income Tax [2024] SGITBR 1

April 22, 2024

Singapore: In this client alert, we analyse the recent decision of GIO v Comptroller of Income Tax [2024] SGITBR 1, where the Income Tax Board of Review decided that gains from certain buy-sell property transactions undertaken with a profit-seeking intention were income in nature under section 10(1)(g) of the Income Tax Act.

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