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Helping aspiring entrepreneurs with the ‘Essentials of Starting a Business’ Aspiring entrepreneurs can tap on ACRA’s new free online interactive programme to know the essentials for starting a business in Singapore. Apart from business registration and filing information, there is also information contributed by other government agencies in areas such as business licenses, government grants and loans, individual & corporate tax matters, CPF and personal data protection requirements. Try out the programme today!

Empower your digital solutions with ACRA APIs The ACRA API Mall now offers a total of 29 API services including API calls to enquire business and financial information of entities from ACRA’s datasets. Companies filing annual returns can also tap on the APIs to validate and upload financial statements in XBRL format directly to ACRA’s BizFinx server, which they can then select for filing as part of their annual returns. A test console is now available for interested users to create simulated responses using test data provided in the sandbox environment.

New Appointments to the ACRA Board On 26 Mar 2019, the Minister for Finance appointed one new member and re-appointed five current Board members. New ACRA Board member: Ms Lai Chin Yee, Finance Director, Qian Hu Corporation Ltd The re-appointed board members are: Ms Ameera Ashraf, Partner and Head of Competition & Regulatory Practice, Wong Partnership LLP Mr Ho Meng Kit, Chief Executive Officer, Singapore Business Federation Mr Lee Boon Ngiap, Assistant Managing Director, Capital Markets Group, Monetary Authority of Singapore Mr Ong Khiaw Hong, Chief Executive, Accounting and Corporate Regulatory Authority Prof Tan Cheng Han, Professor of Law, Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore The appointments will take effect from 1 Apr 2019.

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