The setup package and the first year's filings quoted together — with the government fee shown inside the price and the annual calendar stated before you sign anything.
Part of a company's year follows the financial year end. The rest fires when something happens — a name, an officer, a share transfer, a registration once its test is met. Both sets are below, with the authority that publishes each rule named in the last column.
Every due date below is the position the authority named in the last column publishes for companies with your year end, and it can be revised. We re-check it at engagement and at each renewal, and the dates that apply to your company are written into the engagement letter on the day it is signed.
Obligation
When it falls due
Who files it
Where the current rule sits
Incorporation
The date the authority accepts the application — set by it, not by us
We lodge the application; the authority issues the company number
ACRA
First annual return
Inside the window the authority publishes after the first financial year end
Filed with ACRA, by the secretary named on your engagement
ACRA
Annual return, every year after
The same window after each year end; we calendar the date at engagement and remind you before it
Filed with ACRA
ACRA
Annual general meeting, or the resolution in its place
Inside the window the authority publishes after the year end, unless your company meets the exemption it publishes
We prepare the papers and the resolutions; the members sign
Your constitution, and ACRA guidance
Estimated chargeable income
Inside the window IRAS publishes after the year end; exemptions are stated, never assumed
Filed with IRAS, by us under the engagement
IRAS
Corporate tax return
The date IRAS publishes for your year end
Filed with IRAS
IRAS
GST returns, once registered
On the filing cycle IRAS assigns the company at registration
Filed with IRAS; a quarter with no transactions is still filed
IRAS
Changes to officers, address or shares
Inside the period the authority allows after the change, counted from the change itself
Filed with ACRA
ACRA
Does this apply to me?
Read the row that describes you.
Half of the questions we are asked are a company checking whether an obligation applies before it asks for help. Classify yourself first, then read the obligation.
Exemptions and windows are the authority's to publish. We apply them to your company at engagement, name the row that applies to you, and put the answer in the engagement letter rather than leaving you to classify yourself.
Your situation
Meeting required?
Annual return?
Financial statements sent to every member inside the window the authority sets
Covered by the exemption the authority publishes
Still filed, with the exemption declared
Members have passed a resolution dispensing with meetings
No meeting held
Still filed
A private company that meets neither of the above
Held inside the published window
Filed inside its own window
Dormant — no transactions, no bank movement
Depends on the exemption that applies
Still filed: dormancy is not an exemption from filing
Registered for GST
Not affected
Returns run on their own cycle, nil periods included
If a date is missed
The consequence is published. We will not paraphrase it.
No penalty figure appears here: the authority sets the scale, revises it, and applies it to the company. What can be stated here is the route, and who it names.
The letter goes to the company. The authority writes to the company's registered contact, not to us, and its letter carries the current penalty and the action it intends to take next.
The authority's own page is the source. Ask us for the figure in writing and you get the authority's number and where it is published, rather than our summary of it.
Directors stay responsible. Filing can be outsourced; the obligation to file, and the accuracy of what is filed, cannot.
Catch-up is a sequence. Establish what was last filed, prepare the outstanding periods, lodge oldest first, then agree the calendar going forward from a known position.
The current position is confirmed in writing before anything with a date attached to it is acted on.
How the review period actually runs
A confirmation statement is filed at least once every 12 months. That 12-month window is the review period, and it runs from incorporation or from the last statement filed.
When the review period ends you have 14 days to file. Filing early is allowed, and it begins a new 12-month period the next day — which is how a year end that clashes with another deadline is moved deliberately.
The filing fee is charged once per payment period, not once per filing: filing twice inside one period does not bill the company twice, and a company that is dormant still files.
The statement updates nothing. Officer, address and share changes are lodged separately first; the statement then confirms the register is right. Get the order wrong and the statement is filed against a record that is already stale.
Where are you starting?
First the shape, then the filings.
A company being formed, a company being kept, a company behind on its filings, and a partnership or LLP are four different jobs. Pick the one you are in — the scope follows from it, not from a menu.
A formation quote is only honest if the government charge is inside the number and named. Every figure below carries the authority's fee in the total and shows it again as its own line.
In every package
The secretary who signs the filings, named to you in writing at engagement
Your dates written down and dated, with the owner of each row named
Reminders before a date rather than an apology after it
Filings lodged through the authority's own channel, with the acknowledgement kept
A bill that separates our fee from the authority's charge on every invoice
The source for any rule we apply, sent to you on request instead of paraphrased
Illustrative concept pricing, not a quotation. Every figure is a total: it includes the authority's fee, passed through at its published rate, never marked up, and shown as its own line on the invoice. Assumes one private company limited by shares, one class of shares, up to four officers, a registered office in Singapore, records in English, and one annual return a year. What moves the number: extra share classes, share transfers, more than four officers, a change of name, a restructuring, non-English records, filings that still require a wet-ink signature, and catch-up work on periods never filed. Every annual package renews on its anniversary: the renewal figure reaches you at least thirty days before the date, and the scope can be changed or cancelled then without a notice period. Confirm current rates before you engage.
Package
Year one, authority fee inside
Formation only Renews at: One-off — nothing to renew Email response time: One working day
S$1,150includes an illustrative S$315 authority fee, charged at its published rate
Formation & first year Renews at: S$780 a year from year twosecretarial and the annual return Email response time: One working day
S$1,980includes the same authority fee and the first annual return
Secretarial & statutory, existing company Renews at: S$980 a year Email response time: Two working days
S$980 for the year
Catch-up, per outstanding year Renews at: Quoted per year resolved Email response time: Three working days
From S$540 per company yearquoted after the records check, not before it
Illustrative concept pricing, not a quotation. The authority column is its charge, collected at the published rate and passed through unchanged; where it depends on the filing, we say so before you pay rather than after. What moves the number: which filings the year contains, whether the company is dormant, and how far behind the records are. Confirm current rates before you engage.
Item
Our fee
Authority fee
Formation, one company Example total: S$1,165
S$850
At its published ratewhich is S$315
Annual return filing Example total: Our fee plus the authority's charge
S$180
At its published rate
Registered office address, 12 months Example total: S$260
S$260
None
Named secretary, per year Example total: S$600
S$600
None
GST registration application Example total: S$300
S$300
None
The arithmetic, done once
What a first year actually totals.
Bought line by line on this illustration: formation at S$850, the authority's illustrative S$315, and twelve months of registered office at S$260 — S$1,425, with the annual return and the named secretary still to add. The package that carries both is S$1,980. Redo the arithmetic with the authority's current fee and the answer moves by exactly that difference, which is the point of showing it.
Preparing and lodging each filing the package names
The authority fee, passed through at the published rate and shown on the invoice
The named secretary, and the registers kept current for the year
The dated calendar, with the owner of every row named
Reminders before each date, and the acknowledgement after each filing
Outside it, unless the scope says otherwise
Bookkeeping, payroll and tax filings, which are engagements of their own
Any authority charge that is not part of the filing purchased, such as a charge for filing late
Share transfers, allotments, restructuring, or a change of name
Filings that require a wet-ink signature, where courier or notary costs apply
Recovering records from a previous provider, or advice on a dispute
Representation before any authority, which is scoped and priced separately
Three jobs, one file
Formation, the annual return, and the years behind.
Every engagement we quote is one of these three. The type and the range are on the card, the figure is in the table above, and anything outside the range is quoted before it starts.
ILLUSTRATION / FORMATION DESKFormation · one company
Incorporating a private company
The name checked against the register, the constitution prepared, the officers and the share split recorded, and the application lodged the day the signatures are in.
Scope and exclusions ↗
Scope: one private company limited by shares, one class of shares, up to four officers, a registered office in Singapore and records in English. The authority's fee is inside the figure and shown again as its own line on the invoice. Two to five working days from a complete submission; a name the register refuses costs the delay, not a fee.
ILLUSTRATION / STATUTORY REGISTERRegisters & annual return · per year
Keeping the company filed
The registers updated as changes happen, the meeting or the resolution in its place prepared before the window closes, and the annual return lodged inside the window your year end sets.
Scope and exclusions ↗
Scope: one annual return, the registers for the year, the meeting papers and a reminder before every date. Billed annually and renewed on the anniversary; the renewal figure reaches you before the date it falls on.
ILLUSTRATION / RECORDS DRAWERCatch-up · per outstanding year
Clearing years that were never filed
We establish the last filed position from the register, prepare the outstanding periods, and lodge them oldest first so each year closes before the next one opens.
Scope and exclusions ↗
Scope: quoted per company year after a records check, because the state of the records decides the number. Two years behind is two sets of accounts, two returns and one handover — not a single line item.
One company secretary is named in your engagement letter and signs the filings we lodge. The letter states what that person is qualified in, which filings they sign, and the name of the second person who covers when they are away.
The name arrives in the letter, before the first filing.HAND
The continuity rule
The same person works your file year to year, and any handover reaches you in writing before the next filing — never as a different signature on a document you were not expecting.
Continuity is written into the engagement, not promised at a meeting.
Filings are lodged through the authority's own channel under the access you grant us, and that access is listed on the first page of the engagement letter. The letter also states which filings we answer for if a date passes while we are engaged, and which of them stay with the directors.
Handover, calendar, filing, review.
Handover
What has been filed, what has not, and where the records currently stop.
Set the calendar
Your three dates written down, with who does what before each one.
File in sequence
Outstanding periods first, then working forwards on time.
Year-end review
What was filed, what it cost, and what changes next year.
What we need from you
Four inputs, then it moves.
Formation no longer needs a folder of documents at every step, but it does need decisions and identity checks. This is the list, and when each item is needed.
The name, and a second choice. Checked against the register before anything is submitted; a rejected name costs a delay, not a fee.
Identity details for every officer and shareholder, plus the verification the authority requires of them. We say which of them must verify, and how the verification route works, before you are asked for anything.
The share split and the financial year end. Both are fixed at incorporation and both drive the calendar afterwards.
Signatures, when the authority asks for them. Electronic where accepted, wet ink where it is not — we say which, before the request arrives.
Registrations run on their own clocks and are not part of formation. GST registration and the employment registrations a new employer needs are started when you tell us to, and we state the sequence and the waiting time rather than folding it into a formation date.
01You give us the inputs +
The name, the officers, the share split and the year end. Output: a submission checked against the register, and a date for the application.
02We prepare, you sign +
We prepare the constitution and the first resolutions and send them with each signature marked. Output: a signed set we hold for you, and the filings lodged.
03We lodge and return the acknowledgement +
We lodge with the authority and hand back the acknowledgement and the number it issues. Output: your first-year calendar, dated, with the owner of every row named.
If a deadline in that calendar would be missed for a reason on your side — a signature, a record, a decision — you hear it from us before the date, with the options, and not after it.
A director's view
“The government fee was its own line on the invoice, and the first date in the calendar was already written down before we asked.”
Formation & first year · sample story
Sample story. Not a real customer review.
The practical questions
Before you hand a company over.
What does the first year actually cost, including the government's fee?+
One number, with the authority's fee already inside it and named on the invoice. Every figure above is a total, and the government charge is passed through at its published rate rather than marked up. It is shown again as its own line, so the number you approve is the number the authority charges plus ours.
Why is there a charge next year if nothing changes?+
Because the annual return, the registers and the named secretary are obligations that repeat whether or not the company changes. Year one and the renewal are quoted side by side above for that reason, and the renewal figure is written into the engagement letter with the date it falls due.
What do you need from us, and when?+
At formation: the name, the officers, the share split, the year end and identity verification for each officer and shareholder. Each year after: the records for the period, and a signature where the authority still requires one. Every request carries the date it is needed by, and nothing is assumed to be with us until you have it in writing.
What happens if a date passes while you are engaged?+
The authority writes to the company and applies the scale in force at the time; we answer that letter under the engagement and send you what it says rather than a summary of it. The engagement letter states which filings we answer for if a date passes while we are engaged.
Who is the company secretary, and what are they responsible for?+
Ours is named in the engagement letter with what they are qualified in and which filings they sign. That person keeps the registers current and lodges the filings; the accuracy of what is filed stays with the directors.
Can we move from our current provider mid-year?+
Yes, and it runs as a sequence: the last filed position established, the registers and last accounts obtained, portal access confirmed and removed from the outgoing provider, then the next date calendared. We write to your present provider for the records and tell you the date the first filing moves to us.
Start with the company
Tell us the company, we'll check the dates.
Give us the incorporation date and the year end, and the dates follow from those two. If the company is behind on filings, say so — the order of the work changes.
