Top Tips for Improving Your Business Credit Score

Improving your business credit score is essential for securing favorable financing options and ensuring long-term business sustainability. In this blog post, we will explore top strategies for enhancing your business credit score.

Business Bank Accounts vs. Personal Accounts: Why You Need Both

Understanding the differences between business bank accounts and personal accounts is crucial for effectively managing your finances. This blog post will guide you through the benefits of having both types of accounts and how they play distinct roles in your financial landscape.

Billionaires of Southeast Asia

Billionaires of Southeast Asia

Even though it is a developing area, Southeast Asia is already home to tens of billionaires who have built business empires across the region. Having grown their companies by working with their families or as sole entrepreneurs, ASEAN billionaires are at the head of some of the largest corporations of the region.

ASEAN infographics: demography, growth, top cities, urbanization

4 ASEAN infographics: demography, top cities, urbanization

Cities and urbanization are some of the most important drivers of Southeast Asia’s economic dynamism, environmental, societal and cultural change. To better understand the challenge and opportunities they bring, here are 4 infographics summarizing urban trends on the demography and rural exodus in ASEAN.

Guide to taxes in Myanmar [brackets-incentives]

With a strong appetite for development, Myanmar has adopted a very accommodating fiscal regime. A low corporate income tax, a progressive but low personal income tax, no VAT but a light “commercial tax” and strong incentives, aim at attracting and helping companies to spur the development of Myanmar’s newly opened economy.

Taxes in Lao PDR

Guide to taxes in Laos [brackets-incentives]

Taxes in Laos are among the lowest in the region: a low corporate income tax, a low progressive income tax and a low VAT make the country attractive for business. The Lao taxation system is quite simple and straightforward to encourage investment in the country and help develop its burgeoning economy.

Taxes in the Philippines

Guide to taxes in the Philippines [brackets-incentives]

Though slightly above regional peers, taxes in the Philippines are rather low globally: low corporate income tax, low progressive income tax and and low VAT. Though the taxation system is rather simple, particular rates, formalities and methods of calculations have to be implemented to properly compute and declare taxes.

Top cities and urbanization in ASEAN

Infographic: top cities and urbanization in ASEAN

Urbanization is one of the major trends currently shaping Southeast Asian societies, cultures, economies, businesses and environments. Being on the verge of counting more than half of its population living in urban areas, ASEAN comprises some of the largest and some of the fastest growing cities of the world.