Ng Choon Beng
("Choon")

Tax Director, GST

Accredited Tax Advisor (GST), SCTP 

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• First GST professional to be showcased by SCTP, and with the most number of features spread over the last three Thursdays in the month of August 2024

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• More than 27 years of practical experience in handling GST tax compliance and providing GST tax advisory to a multitude of clients including trading, marine & shipping, logistics, construction, manufacturing, airline, biomedical and technology companies

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• Accredited Tax Advisor (GST) with the Singapore Chartered Tax Professionals (SCTP)

 

• Written extensively on GST with several articles featured in The Business Times and Singapore CCH publications

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• Choon is effectively bilingual and is able to converse in English and Mandarin

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Career highlights 

• Selected to work in the GST Audit Division of the Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore (IRAS) and was instrumental in implementing the first “GST Workshop for newly registered traders” (1999)

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• Winner of Quality Service Award at IRAS (1999)

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• Posted to Australia with a Big Four accounting firm to implement GST (1999 - 2001)

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• Returning to Singapore, worked with the Big Four accounting firm on all aspects of GST work related to business life cycle (2001 - 2012)

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• Chair Organizer for EY Asia Pacific Tax Symposium, Thailand (2007) 

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• Lecturer at the Tax Academy of Singapore (2008 - 2011)

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• Presented more than 250 public GST workshops and customised trainings during this time, including:

  • Guest speaker at a GST tax conference organised by the Malaysian Retailer's Association held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (2012)

  • Guest speaker at an export clinic organised by International Enterprise (IE) Singapore to share the pertinent Singapore GST tax issues businesses should consider before venturing abroad (2012)