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Cost of Tax Collection

Updated 8 months ago

IRAS (Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore)

Chart: Cost of Tax Collection

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CostofTaxCollection.csv (24 rows, 310 B)

Financial Year Text	Cost per Dollar of Tax Collected Text
(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%
2000	0.87
2001	0.9
2002	0.99
2003	1.01
2004	1.02
2005	0.93
2006	0.83
2007	0.77
2008	0.8
2009	0.88

Column legend

Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Financial Year	financial_year	Text	-	Financial year starts on 1 April and ends on 31 March
Cost per Dollar of Tax Collected	cost_per_dollar_of_tax_collected	Text	-	-

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Sample OpenAPI query

This code can be used to test a sample API query. It retrieves the data catalogue of this dataset. For a complete guide on query parameters and syntax, please refer to the API documentation. Try it out on your browser to see the response schema.

import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_697b2ff8c060349260a2645fb36a9cf8"
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). Cost of Tax Collection (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved April 25, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_697b2ff8c060349260a2645fb36a9cf8/view

About this dataset

Contact

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

Created on

27 Jun 2016

Licence

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

Agency

IRAS (Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore)