Can anyone advise regarding taxes for Irish domiciled ETFs that can be bought at a foreign stock exchange such as LSE?

As TFS has mentioned, the dividend tax rate will be 15% applies to both accumulating and distributing ETFs that invests in US companies.

For distributing ETFs, the dividend paid to you from the brokerage will be net of the tax.

For SG income tax, the dividend received need not be declared as part of your income as long as it is from investments.

https://www.iras.gov.sg/IRASHome/Individuals/Lo...

Hi Farah,

I'm not sure what exactly you're trying to ask, but I'm assuming it's related to dividend withholding tax.

The strategy of buying the Ireland-domiciled counterparts of US ETFs (ie CSPX vs VOO) is to minimise this tax rate.

As a Singaporean, when you invest in the US, any dividends are subjected to a 30% tax. But when you buy Ireland-domiciled ETFs on the LSE, the dividends are paid from US -> Ireland instead of US -> SG. The tax rate for the former is only 15%. Subsequently, when the dividends are paid from Ireland -> SG via the LSE, there are no taxes on dividends, so you will only be taxed a total of 15% on dividends instead of the original 30% from US -> SG.

Hope this helps!

Regards,
thefrugalstudent