Independent Singapore-based tax advice
Independent Singapore-based cross-border tax advice for businesses, private capital and internationally mobile families operating across Asia.
Senior judgment, deep technical expertise and modern delivery, from a firm built for the matters where the stakes require it.
Asia Pacific
Regional Reach
Singapore centre with multi-jurisdiction advisory footprint.
100 %
Independent & Conflict-Free
Zero audit mandates or platform cross-selling pressures.
Why Independent Matters
In an environment where information is increasingly commoditised, the value of tax advice is concentrating in judgment, experience and integrated thinking.
Velten Advisors was built with a clean sheet of paper to provide that judgment: without audit independence constraints, platform cross-selling incentives or inherited cost structures.
Independent. Senior-led. Technology-enabled. Long-term.
That combination is rare. It is also, increasingly, what the matter requires.
Independent
No audit independence constraints, no product incentives, no referral obligations.
Senior-led
The person who advises you is the person who does the thinking.
Technology-enabled
Technology supports judgment and delivery. It does not replace either.
Long-term
Relationships built on continuity, trust and shared outcomes.
What we do
Four areas of practice, closely connected in the work. Every mandate is led personally by Michael Velten, with specialist support brought in where the matter requires it.
Corporate & Cross-Border Tax
Singapore & Cross-Border Tax Advisory
Singapore structuring, IRAS engagement and disputes, transfer pricing, regional architecture, and the tax workstream on transactions.
Transfer Pricing & International Structuring
Policy, documentation, disputes, international operating-model design.
Transactions, M&A & Special Situations
Tax workstreams on transactions, often alongside legal counsel.
Capital Expenditure Tax
Combined tax and cost-engineering studies for major capital projects: capital allowances, section 14N, LIA, Pillar Two and investment-credit substantiation. Singapore and Malaysia.
Private Capital & Family Offices
Transparency & Governance
Tax Governance
Board-level tax governance, IRAS TGF and CTRM adoption, regional tax control frameworks, Pillar Two readiness and AI governance for tax functions, Singapore and Asia-Pacific.
Tax Transparency
Strategic advisory on global tax transparency: CRS, CRS 2.0, FATCA, CARF, entity classification, controlling person analysis, and reporting defensibility. Singapore and Asia-Pacific.
AI Governance
Governance, controls, review protocols and risk management around the use of AI within tax functions.
Selected Compliance & Implementation Support
Selectively, where coordination with our advisory produces a better outcome.
Proprietary Technology
Built on our own technology
Most firms of this size buy their technology. We built ours, for ourselves.
Teliti is an AI-enabled Singapore tax research platform we developed in-house and use in our own work. It is not a product we sell, license or resell. It lets a deliberately small senior team work across the depth of Singapore tax law at a speed that would otherwise require scale: which is how senior judgment stays available on every mandate rather than being rationed.
Building and governing a live AI system in a profession where mostly correct is unacceptable is also what informs our AI governance practice.
Defined-scope reviews
Contained entry points, for matters that benefit from early diagnosis before a broader commitment.
CRS 2.0 Residence & Structuring Review
For internationally mobile individuals and families whose residence, reporting and wealth structures may be exposed under the amended CRS. A structured questionnaire and a written assessment of domestic-law residence, preliminary treaty position, self-certification implications and practical next steps.
AI Readiness & Risk Assessment
For regulated tax functions and professional firms that need a defensible answer when a board, regulator or professional indemnity insurer asks how AI use is governed.
Who we work with
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Multinational groups
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SMEs and founders
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Family offices
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Private capital and fiduciary platforms
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Boards and investment committees
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Law firms and other professional advisers on transactions
Regional reach
Singapore is the centre of our practice. Our work extends across Asia-Pacific (Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, Australia and Japan) and onto cross-border matters reaching further afield, including recent work touching Africa, South America, the United Kingdom and the United States. Where matters extend beyond our direct reach, we coordinate with a curated network of partner firms whose work we know directly.
Insights & Newsroom
Selective commentary on the issues that define the practice: CRS 2.0, Pillar Two, governance architecture, AI inside the tax function, transactions, family capital.
Tax is technical. Tax is political. Tax is increasingly data-driven.
But tax decisions and their consequences remain profoundly human.
Confidential Consultation
All enquiries are handled personally by Michael Velten and treated with strict confidentiality.