Letter with salary breakdown required for PR application

[Cherylchew]

hi guys ... serious help needed. i'm a sporean and my husband is a msian.
So basically he applied for pr and recently ica send us a letter stating that they need my husband'd company to write a letter with his designation, date of employment and salary breakdown for the last six mths together with his payslip. The problem is, my husband is working in fnb line and it's privat. eg: his boss rent an unit from the coffeshop and work there. Thus his wp is with coffeshop. His under work permit and coffeshop just submit is salary as 1k per mth, but he's actual salary is more than that. When we filled up the form, we indicate salary for basic is 1k and gross at 2.5k. So, how am i suppose to write the letter wih salary breakdown ? As i've check for allowance and commission is taxable so i cant write that in. Help needed!!

[JR8]

Why does the coffee-shop declare he earns $1000 when he earns $2500?

Confused

[Cherylchew]

sorry ... ok ... wp is with coffeshop, his boss just rent a stall from coffeshop and he work at the stall. His salary is from his boss and not the coffeshop. The coffeshop can only issue wp this only declare 1k. understand ? hmmm ....

Coffeshop - landlord
His boss - tenant
His pay - from his boss

[nutnut]

If his boss is paying him cash in hand then this is illegal, otherwise how else is his salary being declared to IRAS?

[JR8]

So his WP is with the coffee-shop, but he works for and is paid by someone else (?).


That sounds complicated, I won't try and answer as I don't know. Wait until the experts come along later...

[Cherylchew]

yes ... ii know . thats why i need help ... also, is the coffeshop boss dun wan to help him with the actuall amt, he's only willing to issue work permit. At first when he join, he's pay is 1k but as time pass, pay increase, request coffeshop boss to issue spass instead, he refuse.

[nutnut]

I'm with JR8 on this, I cannot offer you any further support, it's a minefield, sorry!

[sundaymorningstaple]

You can forget PR. He is a willing partner to defraud the Singapore Government of rightly due taxes that should have been due to Inland Revenue. Because of this, He is probably being threatened by his employer as well because both the employer will get fined once found out (and possibly jailed as well) and your husband will also be fined, jailed and upon release from jail, deported and banned from re-entering Singapore.

The best thing he can do is quit while he can, find a different job and try to do it right this time, cause at the moment, he's got himself between a rock and a hard place. He is a willing accomplice to a crime against the government.

[Cherylchew]

omg ! any other way out ? are we able to like cancel this application and then re apply with the new form ? whereby the basic abd gross amt we can just write 1k ?

[sundaymorningstaple]

You could, but it won't work because his FIN number will always remain the same. Therefore, every application he will make will still go into the same electronic and hardcopy file with the previous ones. Therefore it may just raise even more questions.

[Cherylchew]

ok ... so to say ... we can cancel our application right? they wont ban us or not allowing us to reapply if we cancel will they ? so if his fin num is change .. only then can reapply, for safe sake? ?

[nutnut]

You can't change the FIN number...

[Cherylchew]

really ? i mean if he change job or employer / the fin num will still be the same ?

[nutnut]

Yes, it only changes when you become PR....

[sundaymorningstaple]

It only changes IF you become PR.

Frankly, your best bet would be to immigrate to Malaysia.