singaporeflyer wrote: ↑Mon, 31 May 2021 9:47 pm
Check mainly about the tax implications in the country that you are going to stay. As of what I know, it is your employer who needs to allow and not MOM. For MOM as long as you have a valid EP and salary is paid in SGD into your account as declared in the EP, it will be OK.
Not quite correct. You can be on an EP and get paid in Thai Baht into your American bank account and that is A-OK. The two things that matter: You are employed by a Singapore company, and you have residency status in Singapore.
Your Singapore employer can second you to another country for extended periods and that is usually not an issue if you continue to be paid by the Singapore company (even if it's in Thai Baht).
The problem, though, is the country in which you are actually working. They will very quickly want to declare you tax resident (short or long term). This is especially true if it is your home country.
Example: You are employed by a Singapore company but you live and work in Malaysia. If you are working there for a longer duration than a visit pass, the Singapore company is supposed to create a Malaysian subsidiary that hires you so that you pay Malaysian income tax.
But, Malaysia is piss poor about discovering such employees so you can probably do this for a long time.
If you're resident in your home country, that is where you will pay your income taxes. Even if you are employed by the Singapore company, if they do not have a legal entity in your home country, then you must be working for that Singapore company as a private contractor; hence, no residency and no EP in Singapore.