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Economy

Cost of Tax Collection

IRAS (Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore)

Data from 2000 to 2025

Last updated 5 days ago (4 Sep 2026)

Chart: Cost of Tax Collection

Data explorer

CostofTaxCollection.csv (26 rows, 332 B)

Financial Year
Year (YYYY)
Cost per Dollar of Tax Collected
Numeric
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
20000.87
20010.9
20020.99
20031.01
20041.02
20050.93
20060.83
20070.77
20080.8
20090.88
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Sample OpenAPI query

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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 (2026) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved September 9, 2026 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_697b2ff8c060349260a2645fb36a9cf8/view

About this dataset

Contact

hoong_sook_ying@iras.gov.sgmelissa_lim@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)