What is "singapore sling"

The Singapore Sling is a gin-based cocktail. This long drink was developed sometime before 1915 by Ngiam Tong Boon, a Hainanese bartender working at the Long Bar in Raffles Hotel, Singapore. It was initially called the gin sling – a sling was originally an American drink composed of spirit and water, sweetened and flavored.

Singapore Sling is an Icelandic rock 'n' roll band from Reykjavík, formed in 2000. The band have released eight studio albums to date.

Singapore Sling: The Man Who Loved a Corpse (, tr. Singapore Sling: O Anthropos pou Agapise ena Ptoma) is a 1990 Greek black-and-white dramatic experimental independent surrealist underground art film directed by Nikos Nikolaidis and regarded as his magnum opus. Considered a difficult film to label while still managing to develop something of a cult following throughout the years nonetheless, it was shot in a bizarre manner somewhat resembling film noir or neo-noir and black comedy as well as the exploitation, thriller, and crime genres mixed with some elements of eroticism and horror with sex being used as a power game and received a theatrical release in Greece on 6 December 1990. Despite Nikolaidis' career as a film director in his home country which stretches to the early 1960s he was almost entirely unknown outside Greece before the early 1990s and is still less known outside it and it was only with this film, which has immediately achieved cult status, that international fame came to him and it probably still remans the film for which he is best known today, as exemplified by the fact that it was released on DVD by Synapse Films, the only one of Nikolaidis' films to so far receive a home video release in North America. The film was officially selected for screening at the Rimini Film Festival.

Singapore Sling is a 1993 Australian television movie about a private eye in Singapore. It led to a series of TV movies.

Singapore Sling is a cocktail named after the place where the drink was developed

Singapore Sling may also refer to:

• Singapore Sling, a corporate tax avoidance scheme
• Singapore Sling (1990 film), a Greek art film
• Singapore Sling (1993 film), an Australian TV movie
• Singapore Sling (band), an Icelandic shoegaze rock'n'roll band
• Singapore Slingers, a basketball team
• Singapore Sling, in motorsport, a match fixing situation
  • 2008 SingTel Singapore Grand Prix, where a Renault F1 driver was told to cause a safety car to help a teammate.
  • 2013 Federated Auto Parts 400, NASCAR race where a driver was told to cause a safety car to help a teammate.

A Singapore Sling is a tax avoidance scheme in which a large multinational company sells products to a subsidiary owned by them in a jurisdiction with lower tax rates, which acts as a "Marketing Hub". The subsidiary then sells the product to end users marking up its value and attributing the mark-up to various marketing activities undertaken by the subsidiary. The parent company retains a higher profit margin due to the lower tax rate. Singapore is a popular location of such subsidiaries, given its low tax rates, and its willingness to grant large multinationals " sweetheart deals" – an extremely low tax rate in exchange for locating the multinational's marketing activities in Singapore.

It is currently under investigation as an abusive practice in Australia.