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Collection: Filing of Tax Returns, Annual

Dataset: Filing of Tax Returns for Goods and Services Tax

Economy

Filing of Tax Returns for Goods and Services Tax

IRAS (Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore)

Data from 2006 to 2025

Last updated 6 days ago (2 Sep 2026)

Chart: No. of GST Returns

Data explorer

FilingofTaxReturnsforGoodsandServicesTax.csv (60 rows, 3.2 KB)

Financial Year Year (YYYY)	Tax Type Text	Return Type Text	No Of Returns Numeric
(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0% Goods & Services Tax100.0%	(Null)0.0% Returns Issued33.3% Returns Received33.3% Returns Received on Time33.3%	(Null)0.0%
2006	Goods & Services Tax	Returns Issued	261427
2006	Goods & Services Tax	Returns Received	251148
2006	Goods & Services Tax	Returns Received on Time	192120
2007	Goods & Services Tax	Returns Issued	274025
2007	Goods & Services Tax	Returns Received	267105
2007	Goods & Services Tax	Returns Received on Time	224599
2008	Goods & Services Tax	Returns Issued	290111
2008	Goods & Services Tax	Returns Received	285821
2008	Goods & Services Tax	Returns Received on Time	259019
2009	Goods & Services Tax	Returns Issued	302726

Column legend

Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Financial Year	financial_year	Year (YYYY)	-	-
Tax Type	tax_type	Text	-	-
Return Type	return_type	Text	-	-
No Of Returns	no_of_returns	Numeric	-	Count

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_76a34b1f7e0f9e5412ee8829183182d4"
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). Filing of Tax Returns for Goods and Services Tax (2026) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved September 9, 2026 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_76a34b1f7e0f9e5412ee8829183182d4/view

About this dataset

Contact

hoong_sook_ying@iras.gov.sg melissa_lim@iras.gov.sg

Created on

30 Aug 2016

Licence

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

Agency

IRAS (Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore)