Singapore legislation

Clause 3

of Goods and Services Tax (Amendment) Bill

Clause 3

New section 2A

The principal Act is amended by inserting, immediately after section 2, the following section:“Digital payment tokens2A.—

(1)

Subject to subsections (2) and (3), a reference in this Act to a digital payment token is a reference to a digital representation of value that has all of the following characteristics:

(a)

it is expressed as a unit;

(b)

it is designed to be fungible;

(c)

it is not denominated in any currency, and is not pegged by its issuer to any currency;

(d)

it can be transferred, stored or traded electronically; (e)it is, or is intended to be, a medium of exchange accepted by the public, or a section of the public, without any substantial restrictions on its use as consideration.(2) A reference in this Act to a digital payment token does not include any of the following:

(a)

money; (b)anything which, if supplied, would be an exempt supply under Part I of the Fourth Schedule for a reason other than being a supply of one or more digital representations of value having the characteristics mentioned in subsection (1);

(c)

anything which —

(i)

gives an entitlement to receive, or an entitlement to direct the supply of, goods or services from a specific person or persons; and

(ii)

ceases to function as a medium of exchange after the entitlement has been used.(3) The Minister may, by order in the Gazette, do any of the following:

(a)

add to the characteristics, or modify or remove any characteristic, in subsection (1) of digital payment tokens for the purposes of this Act, whether generally or for specific circumstances;

(b)

add to the exclusions, or modify or remove any exclusion, in subsection (2).”.