GST

$12.1 billion in GST, customs and excise duties collected in 2025: Singapore Customs

Singapore Customs collected $8.9 billion in GST and $3.2 billion in customs and excise duties in 2025.

70 travellers caught for evading taxes, duties in week-long operation at S’pore checkpoints

More than 10,000 travellers and 260 vehicles were identified for checks, and over 14,000 pieces of luggage and hand-carry bags were scanned or searched. during the operations.

askST: What do I have to pay GST on after coming back from a holiday?

Travellers may use the Custom@SG web app to declare and make payment for GST-payable items up to three days in advance.

Man under Customs probe for not declaring over $30k of Pokemon cards at airport

A 25-year-old Singaporean man was found to have undeclared assorted Pokemon trading cards worth more than $30,000 in total.

4 arrested after Singapore Customs seizes over 4,000 cartons of contraband cigarettes

Duty-unpaid cigarettes and vans seized from raids in Canberra Street (top row) and Eunos Ave 7.

Over 1,500 cartons of contraband cigarettes seized; man arrested

The duty-unpaid cigarettes were found in the cargo compartment of a Singapore-registered van.

3 men arrested over evasion of more than $800k in cigarette duties and taxes

Duty-unpaid cigarettes found in the prime mover.

$8.5b in GST collected by S’pore Customs in 2024; rise in tobacco and liquor offences

This is the highest amount of GST collected by the agency to date, based on statistics from the open government data portal Data.gov.sg.

Shopping overseas? 5 tips to avoid getting stopped at Customs

Noting the Customs rules upon arrival in Singapore can help travellers avoid unnecessary trouble at Changi Airport.

‘We are not beggars,’ says PPP’s Goh Meng Seng on GST support schemes

PPP secretary-general Goh Meng Seng speaking a the party's rally at Yio Chu Kang Stadium on April 29.

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