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Economy

Stamp Duty Assessed for Private Residential Properties

Last updated: 19 Sep 2024, 12:03 SGT

IRAS (Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore)

The statistics are based on date of execution of the Sale & Purchase document.
Private residential properties include executive condominiums but exclude residential land.
The statistics for CY2011 and CY2012 are based on stamped documents received by 31 March 2013. From CY2013 onwards, statistics are based on documents stamped by 31 March of the following year (e.g. CY2013 statistics are based on documents stamped by 31 March 2014)
The statistics are derived based on unique count of properties transferred.
The number of transactions for ABSD is included in the number of transactions for BSD because every transaction that attracts ABSD would also attract BSD.
The amount of ABSD assessed is not included in the BSD amount.
From CY2014 onwards, statistics will exclude transactions which are subsequently remitted/aborted.
There will be differences between the Stamp Duty Assessed (SDA) and the Tax Collection for Stamp Duty published on data.gov.sg. SDA is the net stamp duty payable or repayable, excluding transactions which are subsequently remitted/ aborted, while Tax Collection is the total net amount of stamp duties collected, taking into account any tax refunds, adjustments and remissions.

Chart: Stamp Duty Assessed by Type of Stamp Duty

Data explorer

StampDutyAssessedforPrivateResidentialProperties.csv (39 rows, 1.6 KB)

Calendar Year Year (YYYY)	Type of Stamp Duty Text	No. of Transactions Numeric	Stamp Duty Assessed Numeric
(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0% Buyer's Stamp Duty33.3% Seller's Stamp Duty33.3% Additional Buyer's Stamp Duty33.3%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%
2011	Buyer's Stamp Duty	38962	1516789
2011	Additional Buyer's Stamp Duty	34	3103
2011	Seller's Stamp Duty	542	23145
2012	Buyer's Stamp Duty	42761	1594691
2012	Additional Buyer's Stamp Duty	8261	762211
2012	Seller's Stamp Duty	841	34232
2013	Buyer's Stamp Duty	29966	1155999
2013	Additional Buyer's Stamp Duty	12530	1502213
2013	Seller's Stamp Duty	844	48554
2014	Buyer's Stamp Duty	15633	619664

Column legend

Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Calendar Year	calendar_year	Year (YYYY)	-	-
Type of Stamp Duty	type_of_stamp_duty	Text	-	-
No. of Transactions	no_of_transactions	Numeric	-	-
Stamp Duty Assessed	stamp_duty_assessed	Numeric	S$ Thousand	The unit of measure is S$ Thousand.

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_38070327ca83c81887289a5c09d3c545"
url = "https://data.gov.sg/api/action/datastore_search?resource_id="  + dataset_id 
        
response = requests.get(url)
print(response.json())

Citation

This dataset can be reused and cited in research publications.

Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore. (2016). Stamp Duty Assessed for Private Residential Properties (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved August 8, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_38070327ca83c81887289a5c09d3c545/view

About this dataset

Contact

hoong_sook_ying@iras.gov.sg tan_pei_ting@iras.gov.sg

Created on

17 Aug 2016

Licence

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

Agency

IRAS (Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore)