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Economy

Filing of Tax Returns for Individual Income Tax and Corporate Income Tax

Data from Mar 2006 to Feb 2024Updated 3 months ago

IRAS (Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore)
  • No-Filing Service refers to individuals who received No-Filing Service letters and did not need to make any changes to their tax returns.
  • The figures for Individual Income Tax and Corporate Income Tax returns are as at 31 March of the following year for each Year of Assessment (i.e. the YA2016 figures are as at 31 March 2017).
  • The figures for Internet Filing, Telephone Filing and No-Filing Service are as at 18 April of each year. Telephone Filing is no longer available with effect from Year of Assessment 2010.
  • For Year of Assessment 2020, the figures for Internet Filing and No-Filing Service are as at 31 May 2020 as filing extension was granted.

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FilingofTaxReturnsforIndividualIncomeTaxandCorporateIncomeTax.csv (162 rows, 9 KB)

Year Of Assessment
Year (YYYY)
Tax Type
Text
Return Type
Text
No Of Returns
Text
(Null)0.0%
20065.6%
20075.6%
20085.6%
20095.6%
(Null)0.0%
Individual Income Tax66.7%
Corporate Income Tax33.3%
(Null)0.0%
Returns Issued22.2%
Returns Received22.2%
Returns Received on Time22.2%
No-Filing Service11.1%
(Null)9.3%
2006Corporate Income TaxReturns Issued112720
2006Corporate Income TaxReturns Received79200
2006Corporate Income TaxReturns Received on Time65177
2006Individual Income TaxReturns Issued1469742
2006Individual Income TaxReturns Received1419201
2006Individual Income TaxReturns Received on Time1305938
2006Individual Income TaxInternet Filing (by individuals)850821
2006Individual Income TaxTelephone Filing (by individuals)65076
2006Individual Income TaxNo-Filing Servicena
2007Corporate Income TaxReturns Issued119555

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Title
Column name
Data type
Unit of measure
Description
Year Of Assessmentyear_of_assessmentYear (YYYY)--
Tax Typetax_typeText--
Return Typereturn_typeText--
No Of Returnsno_of_returnsText-Count
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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_31badc6db52ce886190c39f5388abf40"
url = "https://data.gov.sg/api/action/datastore_search?resource_id="  + dataset_id 
        
response = requests.get(url)
print(response.json())

Citation

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Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore. (2016). Filing of Tax Returns for Individual Income Tax and Corporate Income Tax (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved November 22, 2024 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_31badc6db52ce886190c39f5388abf40/view

About this dataset

Contact

hoong_sook_ying@iras.gov.sgtan_pei_ting@iras.gov.sg

Created on

30 Aug 2016

Licence

Free forever for personal or commercial use, under the Open Data Licence.

Agency

IRAS (Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore)

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