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WongPartnership LLP Offices
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12 MARINA BOULEVARD, LEVEL 28
MARINA BAY FINANCIAL CENTRE TOWER 3
SINGAPORE 018982
Singapore
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Mr Tan Kay Kheng
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Work Department
Tax; Litigation & Dispute Resolution Group
Position
Tan Kay Kheng heads the Firm’s Tax Practice and is also a Partner in the Litigation & Dispute Resolution Group.
Career
Significant disputes that Kay Kheng has acted as Counsel include the following:
- Comptroller of Income Tax v BBO (on the tax treatment of investment gains by insurance companies) (CA/HC/ITBR).
- BFC Development LLP v Comptroller of Property Tax (on property tax vacancy refunds) (CA/HC).
- ABB v Comptroller of Income Tax (on the taxation of stock options granted to an employee’s estate) (HC/ITBR).
- BLP v Comptroller of Income Tax (on the taxation of management corporations) (HC/ITBR).
- Rabobank v Motorola Electronics Pte Ltd (on set-off where debts had been assigned) (CA/HC).
- Teng Fuh v Collector of Land Revenue (judicial review of a 1983 land acquisition where the property was left undeveloped) (CA).
Publications & Legal Updates
- The Law and Practice of Singapore Income Tax (LexisNexis, 2011, 2013 & 2020), chapters 3, 9 and 19 (2013 edition) and chapter 9 (2020 edition)
- Singapore Academy of Law Annual Review of Singapore Cases, chapter on Revenue and Tax Law, 2005 to 2022
- Stamp Duties Act (LexisNexis Annotated Statutes of Singapore), 2010, 2014 and 2015 editions, and updated online edition, 2022
- Chambers Global Practice Guides – Real Estate Singapore, 2018, 2019 and 2023
- Global Legal Insights – Corporate Tax, 2nd, 3rd, 5th and 6th editions – Singapore Chapter
Languages
English, Mandarin
Memberships
Kay Kheng serves on the Disciplinary Tribunal Panel for the legal profession. At the Law Society of Singapore, he serves as Vice-Chairman of its Compensation Fund Committee, and is also involved in committees with CPA Australia. He is also appointed to the SingHealth Centralised Institutional Review Board (Board E, 2022-2025). He has previously served on the Accounting Standards Council (2010-2015), the boards of the Tax Academy of Singapore (2012-2017) and the Singapore Institute of Accredited Tax Professionals (SIATP, now known as SCTP) (2013-2020), as a divisional councillor of CPA Australia (2016-2018), as Adjunct Faculty at the School of Law, Singapore Management University (2012-2013) and on the Inquiry Panel for the legal profession (2007-2021).
He is an Accredited Tax Advisor (Income Tax) with the SCTP and also a member of the International Fiscal Association.
Education
Admitted, Singapore Bar, 1990; FCPA Australia, 2006; FSIArb, 2007; CTA, 2012; ATA (Income Tax), 2011. National University of Singapore (LL.B., Hons.); Charles Sturt University (MAcc); University of New South Wales (MTax).
Lawyer Rankings
Singapore > Tax: local firms
The practice at WongPartnership LLP handles a mixture of transactional and contentious tax matters, including tax planning, stamp duty, goods and services tax and property tax, as well as advising clients on the tax aspects of debt financing, restructuring and real estate deals. Tan Kay Kheng leads the practice and is a key name for tax litigation.
Lawyer Rankings
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- Dispute resolution
- Fintech and financial services regulatory: local firms
- International arbitration
- Labour and employment: local firms
- Private wealth and family law – local firms
- Projects and energy: local firms
- Real estate: local firms
- Restructuring and insolvency: local firms
- Start-up and venture capital – Local firms