Mineweb.com, 17 Feb 2012
Singapore will exempt investment-grade gold and other precious metals from a seven percent goods and services tax to spur the development of gold trading, Finance Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam said on Friday.
The change brings Singapore's tax treatment of investment-grade gold and other precious metals in line with the practices of other developed countries such as Australia and Switzerland, he said. Full story
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