Do any dealers or auction houses do a lot of business in Singapore?

Longacre

I am putting a pitch together for The Man, outlining why I want to do a particular transaction in Singapore versus Hong Kong. As part of my research, I am outlining the various tax incentives that Singapore offers as compared to Hong Kong (Longacre likes Singapore much better than HK, which I view as an Asian Manhattan). One tax incentive is as follows:

"Approved art and antique dealers will be granted a concessionary tax rate of 10% on income derived from transactions with approved auction houses on behalf of non-residents."


Does anyone have any experience with this incentive provision? How broadly is "antique dealers" defined, and does it include coin dealers? I know some dealers on these boards spend a lot of time in Asia, so I was curious what people's experience was with this.

Bochiman

Just outline why the transaction should be done in the US so the taxes all stay here and better the US economy rather than trying to find ways to keep money out of the US.
Problem solved.

RWB

Christies's and Spink both have offices there as does Bank Leu.

SeaEagleCoins

I do not know any details BUT.... I have done the obligatory "self search" on Google...


...and, lo and behold, I came upon another Sea Eagle Coins... in Singapore...

They appear to be well established over a number of years...

Do a quick search and you will get a number of links to their website...

numisma

I think ColonialCoinUnion could shed some light on this subject.

JSsson

I remember seeing somewhere that Expos Unlimited promotes or used to promote a show in Singapore.