Vincent Ooi (Singapore Management University, Yong Pung How School of Law) recently published an article entitled, Holding Residential Property on Inter Vivos Trusts in Singapore: Transfers of Equity Interests, Trust & Trustees 2022. Provided below is the abstract to the Article:
Following amendments to the ACD regime in Singapore, transferring equity interests to and from a trust with no beneficial owners will attract ACD, as will the exercise of a power of appointment by a trustee to grant equity interests to a beneficiary. Renunciation of interests in a bare trust will also attract ACD. Together with the introduction of ABSD (Trust), it is now impractical to use trusts to hold residential properties for succession planning purposes. Remaining options are to gift the properties without any strings attached or bequeath the properties in a will and risk subsequent changes to death taxation.
https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/trusts_estates_prof/2022/10/article-holding-residential-property-on-inter-vivos-trusts-in-singapore-transfers-of-equity-interest.html