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Collection: Income of Individuals by Income Type, Annual

Dataset: Income of Individuals by Income Type and Tax Group

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Income of Individuals by Income Type and Tax Group

IRAS (Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore)

Taxable Group means those with net tax payable after taking into account allowable tax credits, tax remission, tax rebates and tax deducted at source.
From YA2025, non-tax residents whose short-term employment income are exempted from tax are included in the Individual Income Tax base. Data prior to YA2025 excludes this group.

Data from 2004 to 2025

Last updated 6 days ago (3 Sep 2026)

Chart: Total Income by Income Type for Taxable Individuals

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IncomeofIndividualsbyIncomeTypeandTaxGroup.csv (308 rows, 13.1 KB)

Year Of Assessment Year (YYYY)	Tax Group Text	Income Type Text	Amount Text
(Null)0.0% 20044.5% 20054.5% 20064.5% 20074.5%	(Null)0.0% Taxable Group50.0% Non-Taxable Group50.0%	(Null)0.0% Interest14.3% Dividends14.3% Royalties14.3% Other Types14.3%	(Null)0.0%
2004	Non-Taxable Group	Dividends	1503637
2004	Non-Taxable Group	Employment Income	15118201
2004	Non-Taxable Group	Income from Trade and Profession	1240395
2004	Non-Taxable Group	Interest	101814
2004	Non-Taxable Group	Other Types	204313
2004	Non-Taxable Group	Rents/ Net Annual Value	216172
2004	Non-Taxable Group	Royalties	1361
2004	Taxable Group	Dividends	1820535
2004	Taxable Group	Employment Income	46904231
2004	Taxable Group	Income from Trade and Profession	3169185

Column legend

Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Year Of Assessment	year_of_assessment	Year (YYYY)	-	-
Tax Group	tax_group	Text	-	-
Income Type	income_type	Text	-	-
Amount	amount	Text	S$ Thousand	-

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_855ec3e21bba9532ca390ad8c91d422b"
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). Income of Individuals by Income Type and Tax Group (2026) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved September 9, 2026 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_855ec3e21bba9532ca390ad8c91d422b/view

About this dataset

Contact

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

Created on

17 Aug 2016

Licence

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

Agency

IRAS (Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore)