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by sundaymorningstaple » Sun, 18 Sep 2016 6:01 pm
You may have a problem. I'd suggest you hotfoot it down to IRAS and settle the bill before is DOES become an issue.
At the end of the day, while the employer is supposed to pay on your behalf and withhold it from your final salary, it is still YOUR obligation to ensure your taxes are paid.
If you got your final salary without any deductions for income taxes and you knew there were taxes do, you should have contacted IRAS (in fact, if the employer DID file an IR-21 and just didn't withhold or pay your taxes, you would have known about it as you would have gotten a duplicate notice from IRAS as to the tax amount due. When your received your last cheque, and with no taxes withhold by the employer, you should have gone directly to IRAS to settle your tax liability.
The only penalty for the employer is a $1000 fine per incident. So, if you ignored the tax notice and you knew they employer didn't pay it, then there is a good possibility that this will crop up in the investigation and, yes, it could impact your approval. To what extent I don't know.
SOME PEOPLE TRY TO TURN BACK THEIR ODOMETERS. NOT ME. I WANT PEOPLE TO KNOW WHY I LOOK THIS WAY. I'VE TRAVELED A LONG WAY, AND SOME OF THE ROADS WEREN'T PAVED. ~ Will Rogers