Why do so many Indian Startups register in Singapore?… PhonePe, Flipkart, InMobi…


👉🏼 Tax Saving for VC Investors

The capital gains tax in India is 15-20%, and in Singapore, is zero!

As most VCs, create their returns by selling shares in companies, it’s the capital gains they get taxed on and not business profits or dividends.

This has a direct impact on their returns on the fund and the structure is a coupling of several steps - such as a Trust registered in Mauritius investing into startups, selling the shares, and transferring the money to their investors across the world.

👉🏼 Tax Savings on Profitable Companies

The Income Tax rate on Indian companies is 25-30%, but in Singapore is ~17% only

👉🏼 Political Risk, IP Laws and Arbitration

Singapore is in the top 5 countries in the world in the ease of business rankings, and is the most politically stable government which always takes a neutral stand in international affairs

The Intellectual Property protection laws in Singapore are highly robust compared to India, as are arbitration laws

Both of the above are lagging far behind in India

👉🏼 Raising Capital from China

If you raise money from Chinese investors, you have to go for a special approval from the RBI in India. There’s no such requirement in Singapore

👉🏼 Ecosystem and SE Asia HO

If you decide to penetrate the South East Asia market with your product, then the investors focusing on those markets are headquartered in Singapore and a lot of times would require you to set up a SG HO and transfer the IP to the SG entity.

👉🏼 Despite all of the above, why must you register in India instead

- While SG has lower taxes on the face of it, if your primary business is in India, the Indian tax laws will force your investors to pay taxes in India even though they are foreign parties who have bought and sold shares of a Singapore entity

- While it may seem like it’s easy to set up a SG company online, opening a bank account in SG from India is a massive pain. So you should only register in SG if you plan to open actual operations there

- You can transfer the intellectual property to Singapore on the insistence of your investors, but you’ll still have to keep your Indian entity to hire employees and run all operations. It’s not always as easy, and not always even necessary.

- Despite whatever people say, I think the Indian ecosystem has grown to be quite mature and you don’t need to go to international markets to only raise equity funding. If it’s for business operations, then of course, go and cast your net far and wide

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Anyway, I’ve given frameworks on how to decide where to incorporate your company… Estonia, Delaware USA, Dubai and Singapore for Indian startups in my book, Daily Coffee & Startup Fundraising.

It’s the #3 book on the Bestsellers list for Entrepreneurship on Amazon :)

In the picture, that’s me with my wonderful company in Singapore :D

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I have analyzed the last 𝟰𝟯 𝘆𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗮 𝗼𝗳 𝗦𝗘𝗡𝗦𝗘𝗫
The results will blow your mind 📛📛📛


🔰 There were around 𝟭𝟭,𝟬𝟬𝟬 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗱𝗮𝘆𝘀 in the last 43 years.

🔰 Observations on positive and negative return occurrences.

𝗗𝗮𝗶𝗹𝘆 - 53% time Positive and 47% time Negative.

𝗪𝗲𝗲𝗸𝗹𝘆 - 56% time Positive and 44% time Negative

𝗠𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗵𝗹𝘆 - 61% time Positive and 39% time Negative

𝗤𝘂𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗹𝘆- 64% time Positive and 36% time Negative

𝗬𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗹𝘆 - 72% time Positive and 28% time Negative

𝟯 𝘆𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘀 - 89% time Positive and 11% time Negative

𝟱 𝘆𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘀- 96% time Positive and 4% time Negative

𝟭𝟬 𝘆𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘀- 100% time Positive and 0% time Negative

🔰 SENSEX delivered 𝟭𝟱.𝟱% 𝗖𝗔𝗚𝗥 returns over the last 43 years.

🔰 𝗗𝗲𝗰𝗮𝗱𝗮𝗹 𝗿𝗲𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗻𝘀 dispersion (CAGR)

𝟭𝟵𝟴𝟬-𝟭𝟵𝟵𝟬 - 21.6%
𝟭𝟵𝟵𝟬-𝟮𝟬𝟬𝟬 - 14.3%
𝟮𝟬𝟬𝟬-𝟮𝟬𝟭𝟬 -17.8%
𝟮𝟬𝟭𝟬-𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟬 - 8.8%.*
2020~ 2022 - 24.8%

🔰 BSE Sensex returns 15.5%, if we add an average dividend yield of 1.4% for the last 43 years.

At 16.9% compounding the value of BSE is actually around 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝟴𝟬,𝟬𝟬𝟬 𝗹𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗹.🚀

🔰 Longest 𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗼𝗱 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗿𝗲𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗻𝘀 was from 1994 to 2003. 9 years in total.

🔰 Since 2002, in the last 18 years 𝗡𝗢 𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴𝗹𝗲 𝟳 𝘆𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘀 𝗿𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗿𝗲𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗻𝘀 𝘄𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗿𝗲𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗻𝘀.

This means since 2002 if you ever invested and kept money for a minimum period of 7 years then you would have 𝗻𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗹𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝗺𝗼𝗻𝗲𝘆.

🔰 But what is most surprising and rewarding has been the performance of actively managed equity funds. Here are the data:

𝗖𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗴𝗼𝗿𝘆𝘄𝗶𝘀𝗲 𝗿𝗲𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗻𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝟮𝟬 𝘆𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘀 (𝗖𝗔𝗚𝗥)

𝗛𝘆𝗯𝗿𝗶𝗱 - 15.96%
𝗗𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗶𝗳𝗶𝗲𝗱 -16.25%
𝗘𝗟𝗦𝗦 - 18.20%
**𝗔𝗹𝗹 𝗙𝘂𝗻𝗱𝘀 - 16.41%*

** excluding LIC/JM/Taurus/Quant MF schemes.

🔰 𝗦𝗘𝗡𝗦𝗘𝗫 𝘄𝗮𝘀 𝗮𝘁 𝟯𝟴𝟬𝟬 𝗶𝗻 𝗝𝘂𝗻𝗲 𝟭𝟵𝟵𝟲 (𝟮𝟲 𝘆𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘀 𝗯𝗮𝗰𝗸).

In the last 26 years, average-ex MF delivered 18% CAGR.

Had Sensex delivered as much as average MF schemes then the value of BSE Sensex should have been:

At 16.4% CAGR, SENSEX should be around 1,70,000 levels
At 18% CAGR, SENSEX should be around 2,38,000 levels.

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