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Collection: Income of Individuals by Income Type, Annual

Dataset: Assessable Income of Individuals by Tax Group

Economy

Assessable Income of Individuals by 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.
  • Number of Individuals Assessed includes tax clearance cases for non-citizens.
  • Approved Donations refer to the total tax deductions granted in respect of qualifying donations. For the Year of Assessment (YA)2010 to YA2015 and YA2017 onwards, the amount of tax deduction granted is 2.5 times the amount of qualifying donation made. For YA2016, the amount of tax deduction granted is 3 times the amount of qualifying donation made.
  • 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 7 days ago (2 Sep 2026)

Chart: Assessable Income by Tax Group

Data explorer

AssessableIncomeofIndividualsbyTaxGroup.csv (44 rows, 2.5 KB)

Year Of Assessment
Year (YYYY)
Tax Group
Text
No Of Indv Assessed
Text
Total Income
Text
Donations
Text
Assessable Income
Numeric
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
Taxable Group50.0%
Non-Taxable Group50.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
2004Non-Taxable Group1019375183858929097918294913
2004Taxable Group7148435349305516323853329817
2005Non-Taxable Group797513155782867656815501718
2005Taxable Group7313485601586217045755845405
2006Non-Taxable Group6914411428827814322314145055
2006Taxable Group7695996119202618075561011271
2007Non-Taxable Group665342145407898383314456956
2007Taxable Group8568337018401919820569985814
2008Non-Taxable Group655892146238369493514528900
2008Taxable Group9608158422470026241683962284
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Sample OpenAPI query

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_96c222428732ed780a2d649c0d8105f9"
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). Assessable Income of Individuals by Tax Group (2026) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved September 10, 2026 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_96c222428732ed780a2d649c0d8105f9/view

About this dataset

Contact

hoong_sook_ying@iras.gov.sgmelissa_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)