Yew Kwong is presently a principal tax advisor in a Big 4 accounting firm in Singapore. He was until March 2012, a tax lawyer at WongPartnership LLP and was previously with the Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore (IRAS) and its predecessor, the Inland Revenue Department, for 28 years from 1975 to 2004.
At the IRAS, he last held the posts of Chief Legal Officer and Chief Valuer concurrently where he dealt with all the taxes administered by IRAS, namely income tax, GST, stamp duty, property tax and estate duty.
Yew Kwong has also authored and co-authored a number of books, the latest being “Real Estate and Taxation in Singapore” (September 2022, World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd).