Doing business in Singapore for clients from Kazakhstan
Kazakh energy and metals businesses look east as well as west. Singapore has a comprehensive tax treaty with Kazakhstan, and a services and investment agreement that has been in force since March 2025.
Trade, services and investment in Asia
Resource companies and traders may place their Asian marketing or finance in Singapore, close to its banks and its port. Service firms have a specific reason to look now, because the services and investment agreements give them a treaty framework that goods trade does not yet have. Families may want to hold international wealth outside their home market.
Tax treaty and trade agreements
Singapore and Kazakhstan have a comprehensive double taxation agreement. The Eurasian Economic Union-Singapore Free Trade Agreement is signed and awaits ratification, so it is not in force. The separate services and investment agreements have been in force for Kazakhstan since 1 March 2025.
Below you will find the articles written for clients from Kazakhstan as they are published, followed by the sections of the book Singapore as an International Financial Centre. Your own lawyers advise you on the law of Kazakhstan.
Singapore as an International Financial Centre
Singapore · Book
Singapore as an International Financial Centre — preface
Singapore · Origins
A Place on the Strait: Temasek, Singapura and the Maritime Trade of the Malay World
Singapore · Origins
The Strait of Malacca as a corridor of trade
Singapore · Origins
Temasek and Singapura in the fourteenth century: archaeology and chronicle
Singapore · Origins
Malacca, Johor and the Riau archipelago
Singapore · Origins
Portuguese, Dutch and British rivalry in the Straits
Singapore · Origins
What the pre-colonial port teaches about location and trust
Singapore · Origins
A Place on the Strait: Temasek, Singapura and the Maritime Trade of the Malay World: summary
Singapore · Origins
Raffles, the East India Company and the Free Port of 1819
Singapore · Origins
The East India Company and the China trade
Singapore · Origins
Stamford Raffles and William Farquhar
Singapore · Origins
The agreements with Sultan Hussein and the Temenggong
Singapore · Origins
The free-port principle: open to every flag
Singapore · Origins
Early growth and the first merchant community
Singapore · Origins
What 1819 means for the financial centre
Singapore · Origins
Raffles, the East India Company and the Free Port of 1819: summary
Singapore · Origins
The Treaties of 1824 and the Legal Foundations of British Singapore
Singapore · Origins
The Anglo-Dutch Treaty of 1824
Singapore · Origins
The Treaty of Friendship and Alliance of 1824
Singapore · Origins
The Straits Settlements and the Second Charter of Justice
Singapore · Origins
The reception of English law
Singapore · Origins
Land, title and the security of property
Singapore · Origins
Practical consequences for today’s practitioner
Singapore · Origins