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Duty Rates for Buyer's Stamp Duty

Updated about 1 month ago

IRAS (Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore)

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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%
2003-01-01Buyer's Stamp DutySale & Purchase or Gift of Immovable PropertynaEvery S$100 or part thereof of the first S$180,000 of purchase price or market value, whichever is higher1na
2003-01-01Buyer's Stamp DutySale & Purchase or Gift of Immovable PropertynaEvery S$100 or part thereof of the next S$180,000 of purchase price or market value, whichever is higher2na
2003-01-01Buyer's Stamp DutySale & Purchase or Gift of Immovable PropertynaThereafter, every S$100 or part thereof of purchase price or market value, whichever is higher3na
2014-02-22Buyer's Stamp DutySale & Purchase or Gift of Immovable PropertynaEvery dollar of the first S$180,000 of purchase price or market value, whichever is higherna1
2014-02-22Buyer's Stamp DutySale & Purchase or Gift of Immovable PropertynaEvery dollar of the next S$180,000 of purchase price or market value, whichever is higherna2
2014-02-22Buyer's Stamp DutySale & Purchase or Gift of Immovable PropertynaEvery dollar exceeding S$360,000 of purchase price or market value, whichever is higherna3
2018-02-20Buyer's Stamp DutySale & Purchase or Gift of Immovable PropertynaEvery dollar of the first S$180,000 of purchase price or market value of the residential property, whichever is higherna1
2018-02-20Buyer's Stamp DutySale & Purchase or Gift of Immovable PropertynaEvery dollar of the next S$180,000 of purchase price or market value of the residential property, whichever is higherna2
2018-02-20Buyer's Stamp DutySale & Purchase or Gift of Immovable PropertynaEvery dollar of the next S$640,000 of purchase price or market value of the residential property, whichever is higherna3
2018-02-20Buyer's Stamp DutySale & Purchase or Gift of Immovable PropertynaEvery dollar exceeding S$1,000,000 of purchase price or market value of the residential property, whichever is higherna4

Column legend

Title
Column name
Data type
Unit of measure
Description
FromfromDate (YYYY-MM-DD)--
Type of Stamp Dutystamp_duty_typeText--
Type of Documentdocument_typeText--
Type of Transactiontransaction_typeText-"na" : Data not available or not applicable
Duty Levied Onduty_levied_onText--
Amount of Dutyduty_amountText-Unit of Measure: S$ "na" : Data not available or not applicable
Rate of Dutyduty_rateText-Numeric (Percentage) "100" represents 100% "na" : Data not available or not applicable

Sample OpenAPI query

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

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