Time is getting closer for me to renew my REP... September... so I jump online at ICA, enter all my information, hand ICA a credit card number, and my REP is INSTANTLY renewed... I print off the REP thirty seconds after give them my credit card... good for five more years.
This leads me to believe that the database consolidation that SMS has spoken of is a real thing. Consider:
a) It asked if I had resided in SG for three years. Yes. Then, it asked me for my address... I can easily be matched to PR records, tax records as having occupied my residence continuously.
b) It asked it I was employed in Singapore for the last three years. Yes. I gave the company name. I can easily be matched to IRAS records, and my company matches to the ACRA registry... in fact, I'd bet money that my entry was scanned against the ACRA... it took time.
c) I had to specifically say if my business was in a HDB flat, landed
property, and a bunch of other non office buildings. I was "none of the above", meaning, I get one more point for having a business not being run out of a home.
In short, if you actually have been living here and working here, the entries you make into eREP can be instantly verified... company, address, income, taxes paid. But if you are living in BFE, working for a non-Singapore company, with no Singapore address, I'd guess the red lights and the "tilt" buzzer will come on.