Duty Rates for Buyer's Stamp Duty

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DutyRatesforBuyersStampDuty.csv (63 rows, 15.9 KB)

From Date (YYYY-MM-DD)	Type of Stamp Duty Text	Type of Document Text	Type of Transaction Text	Duty Levied On Text	Amount of Duty Text	Rate of Duty Text
(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0% Additional Buyer's Stamp Duty61.9% Buyer's Stamp Duty38.1%	(Null)0.0% Sale & Purchase or Gift of Residential Immovable Property or in the case of mixed purposes, the part for residential purposes61.9% Sale & Purchase or Gift of Immovable Property38.1%	(Null)38.1% Entities buying any residential property7.9% Foreigners buying any residential property7.9% Housing Developers buying any residential property7.9% Singapore Citizens buying their second residential property7.9%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)95.2% 11.6% 21.6% 31.6%	(Null)7.9%
2003-01-01	Buyer's Stamp Duty	Sale & Purchase or Gift of Immovable Property	na	Every S$100 or part thereof of the first S$180,000 of purchase price or market value, whichever is higher	1	na
2003-01-01	Buyer's Stamp Duty	Sale & Purchase or Gift of Immovable Property	na	Every S$100 or part thereof of the next S$180,000 of purchase price or market value, whichever is higher	2	na
2003-01-01	Buyer's Stamp Duty	Sale & Purchase or Gift of Immovable Property	na	Thereafter, every S$100 or part thereof of purchase price or market value, whichever is higher	3	na
2014-02-22	Buyer's Stamp Duty	Sale & Purchase or Gift of Immovable Property	na	Every dollar of the first S$180,000 of purchase price or market value, whichever is higher	na	1
2014-02-22	Buyer's Stamp Duty	Sale & Purchase or Gift of Immovable Property	na	Every dollar of the next S$180,000 of purchase price or market value, whichever is higher	na	2
2014-02-22	Buyer's Stamp Duty	Sale & Purchase or Gift of Immovable Property	na	Every dollar exceeding S$360,000 of purchase price or market value, whichever is higher	na	3
2018-02-20	Buyer's Stamp Duty	Sale & Purchase or Gift of Immovable Property	na	Every dollar of the first S$180,000 of purchase price or market value of the residential property, whichever is higher	na	1
2018-02-20	Buyer's Stamp Duty	Sale & Purchase or Gift of Immovable Property	na	Every dollar of the next S$180,000 of purchase price or market value of the residential property, whichever is higher	na	2
2018-02-20	Buyer's Stamp Duty	Sale & Purchase or Gift of Immovable Property	na	Every dollar of the next S$640,000 of purchase price or market value of the residential property, whichever is higher	na	3
2018-02-20	Buyer's Stamp Duty	Sale & Purchase or Gift of Immovable Property	na	Every dollar exceeding S$1,000,000 of purchase price or market value of the residential property, whichever is higher	na	4

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Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
From	from	Date (YYYY-MM-DD)	-	-
Type of Stamp Duty	stamp_duty_type	Text	-	-
Type of Document	document_type	Text	-	-
Type of Transaction	transaction_type	Text	-	"na" : Data not available or not applicable
Duty Levied On	duty_levied_on	Text	-	-
Amount of Duty	duty_amount	Text	S$	"na" : Data not available or not applicable
Rate of Duty	duty_rate	Text	-	Numeric (Percentage) "100" represents 100% "na" : Data not available or not applicable

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_611a3ae502e72fd1ce8adb4e54abfc64"
url = "https://data.gov.sg/api/action/datastore_search?resource_id="  + dataset_id 
        
response = requests.get(url)
print(response.json())

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DutyRatesforBuyersStampDuty.csv (63 rows, 15.9 KB)

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