Archive for the 'SRS' Category
After putting in money in your SRS account to reduce your tax payments, what do you do with it? The agent bank I put my money in offered an extremely low interest rate, to the point of being negligible. If you factor in the inflation rate of 6%, your money would have been lost. One […]
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March 2nd, 2008 | Posted in CPF, SRS, Unit Trust | No Comments
The year is coming to an end soon, and don’t wait until April to look at your income for the year. Taxes are calculated based on Jan to Dec income. Quickly do your calculations on your income, especially since many people are getting great bonuses, which would definitely bump up the annual income. Check how […]
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December 18th, 2007 | Posted in Donation, SRS, Income Tax | 2 Comments
There are some changes made to the Central Provident Fund. The advantage is the 1% extra in interest for the first $60000. $20000 comes from the ordinary account. For young Singaporeans, we have to wait until we are 65 years old to be eligible to withdraw the Minimum Sum.
While the reasons for increasing the Minimum […]
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September 25th, 2007 | Posted in CPF, SRS | 1 Comment
In my previous article on Supplementary Retirement Scheme (SRS): A Money Crunching Guide Part II,
Jeff asks: Hi Sarah, in view of the recent PM’s national day rally speech, any idea if the SRS withdrawal age (i.e. 62yo) will be similarly postponed like the CPF withdrawal ?
Let’s take a look at what PM Lee said first. […]
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August 25th, 2007 | Posted in SRS | No Comments
Do you think paying $850 more in income tax each year is nothing much? Wait till you see how much you are losing at the end of 30 years (it’s a mind-boggling six-digit sum!) Make use of Supplementary Retirement Scheme (SRS) by introduced by our government. I’ve talked about how SRS worked in my previous post. […]
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July 15th, 2007 | Posted in ETF, SRS, Investment | 5 Comments
I have heard about Supplementary Retirement Scheme (SRS) from a forum and a colleague. A woman wrote in the forum that she has more than $250000 within 5 years of working, and she made used of the SRS to save. I was a little curious, but did not think that I earned enough to require […]
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July 14th, 2007 | Posted in SRS, Income Tax | 9 Comments