Corporate
Secretarial Services
Corporate Secretarial
Services
All Singapore companies are required to appoint a singapore corporate secretary to handle on-going statutory compliance matters. Our corporate secretarial agents provide guidance and keep your company in good standing.
Your trusted corporate secretarial agents: seamlessly handle company annual returns to acra. Benefit from dedicated reminders, named secretary services, and legal compliance expertise. We ensure any company corporate changes are done in accordance to the law.
We provide advice and assistance in
- Corporate secretarial & support services to private, public and listed companies
- Annual compliance & advisory services (Companies Act, SGX Listing Manual etc.)
- Registration of companies and Singapore branches
- Named nominee Singapore corporate secretary service
- Nominee directors services
- Registered office address service
- Maintenance of statutory registers and minutes books
- Sales and Divestment
- Preparation of Annual General Meeting Documents when due and applicable
- Facilitation of corporate documents for notarisation, legalisation and attestation
- Safe custody and control over use of common seal
- Deregistration of companies
- Share capital reduction
- Share buy-back exercise
- Rights Issue
- IPO Restructuring
HOW IT WORKS?
Fill up the form
To get started, all we need is your name, number and email.
Provide us with information about the company you'd like to incorporate, and the details of your directors and shareholders in the message section.
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Submit your documents
Gather IDs and proof of address for all of your directors and shareholders.
Leave the rest to us
Let Bizsquare Accounting draft your company constitution, and register your Singapore company.
Why Engage A Professional Corporate Company Secretary in singapore?
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One-Stop Solution for Business Secretarial and Accounting Services!
One-Stop Solution for Business Secretarial and Accounting Services!
Get a qualified Singapore corporate
secretary for compliance and streamlined
accounting services. We handle annual
returns, IRAS tax submission, and more, all
designed for cost-effective compliance management
WHY PARTNER WITH US?
Doing it yourself
- Prepare forms and manage submissions for business registration with ACRA
- Corporate secretary not provided
- Do your own documentation and filing to ACRA for changes in directors, shareholders, company share capital or any other corporate changes of the company
- Hire your own accountants/corporate secretary to prepare and file annual returns/annual general meeting documents with ACRA or risk penalties for late submission
Partnering with us
- We help to prepare the necessary documents and obtain approvals needed to complete the incorporation process smoothly
- We can provide you with a corporate secretary
- We assist in documentation and advisory work relating to changes in directors, shareholders, company share capital amongst many other corporate changes of the company
- We can help to prepare and file annual returns/annual general meeting documents with ACRA when due and applicable, or on a timely basis and avoid unnecessary fines.
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS (FAQ)
Who can be a company secretary?
A company secretary is a person appointed to ensure the company maintains compliance with the many statutory requirements – such as maintaining and filing statutory records and returns.
Any natural person who is ordinarily resident in Singapore and who has the requisite knowledge to perform the duties can be a company secretary.
What does a company secretary do?
The company secretary is required to ensure that the company is in compliance with the Companies Acts requirements. These include:
- Change of directors, company secretary auditors and transfer of shares between shareholders, etc.
- Preparation and submission of the Annual Returns
- Preparing and filing of documents (directors’ resolution, minutes of the general meeting) and update of changes to ACRA
- Maintaining the register of directors, company secretary, auditors, shareholders and charges
- Issuing share certificates, recording transfers of shares and allotment of shares
- Maintaining the register of members and debenture holders
What kind of secretarial services will be chargeable?
Non-routine secretarial matters will be chargeable on a request basis.
Example include:
- New issuance of shares
- Transfer of shares
- Change of constitution
- Change of directors
- Opening of additional bank accounts
- Change of company name
- Preparation of notices, minutes and other documents pertaining to directors’ and shareholders’ meetings (Extraordinary General Meeting)
- Attending official meetings
When is the due date to hold an Annual General Meeting(AGM) and file annual return?
The newly incorporated company is required to hold the first AGM within 18 months from date of incorporation. Thereafter, AGMs must be held once in every calendar year or within 15 months from last AGM date.
For annual return, directors of the companies are required to prepare audited or un-audited finacial statement and present the financial statement and present the financial statements to AGM within 6 months after the financial year end.
The company secretary is required to file the annual return to ACRA within one month of the date of AGM.
My company was dormant in the last financial year. Do I still need to hold an AGM?
Even if a company was dormant, it is mandatory to hold AGM and file Annual Return.
There was a change in director of dormant company. Do I need to inform ACRA?
Yes, even if your company was dormant, you are required to notify ACRA for any change of company particulars including change of directors.
Can a director be a company secretary in Singapore?
A director can also hold position of company secretary only if he is qualified to do so.
What kind of services are included in the annual corporate secretarial service fee?
- Providing one qualified person as Secretary of your company as required by Section 171 (1A) of the Companies Act.
- Attending to routine secretarial matters of the company such as first board meeting, annual general meeting, custody of common seal, etc.
- Safekeeping, updating and maintaining registers, notices, minutes book, and other statutory records.
- Preparing and lodging all prescribed forms and requisite documents with the ACRA
- Reminding you of the various statutory compliance dates with ACRA
When is the due date of the company AGM?
AGM will be required 6 months after the financial year end of the company. When the AGM is held and reported after its due date, it will incur penalty from ACRA at $300 per section.
I am busy running the company and I am unable to keep track of the deadlines for AGM and filing of Annual Return. What do I do?
If you have appointed a company secretary, they will be able to advise you on the AGM and Annual Return filing due dates, prepare the necessary documents and minutes for your approval and file the documents with ACRA on the stipulated time.
If you do not have a company secretary and fail to keep track, ACRA may send you reminders and issue a letter to the local director and invite the director to attend the siminar: Directors Compliance Programme (DCP). However the directors of the company have to ensure that they hold the AGM, prepare the necessary documents and make all Annual Return filings on time.
I am not satisfied with my existing service provider. Can I switch to Bizsquare Accounting?
We will be happy to discuss the matters with you and take over the statutory records of your company subject to the termination of your secretarial service with the existing service provider.