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Income of Individuals by Income Type, Annual

Income of Individuals by Income Type

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Income of Individuals by Income Type

Last updated: 04 Sep 2024, 00:18 SGT

IRAS (Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore)

Chart: Total Income by Income Type

Data explorer

IncomeofIndividualsbyIncomeType.csv (140 rows, 3.8 KB)

Year of Assessment Text	Income Type Text	Amount Text
(Null)0.0% 20045.0% 20055.0% 20065.0% 20075.0%	(Null)0.0% Interest14.3% Dividends14.3% Royalties14.3% Other Types14.3%	(Null)0.0%
2004	Dividends	3324172
2004	Employment Income	62022432
2004	Income from Trade and Profession	4409580
2004	Interest	211648
2004	Other Types	902053
2004	Rents/ Net Annual Value	1005417
2004	Royalties	3645
2005	Dividends	2974005
2005	Employment Income	62275153
2005	Income from Trade and Profession	4239440

Column legend

Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Year of Assessment	year_of_assessment	Text	-	-
Income Type	income_type	Text	-	-
Amount	amount	Text	S$ Thousand	The unit of measure is S$ Thousand.

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_9be6a977c945666271657d5699cfe149"
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 (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved July 5, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_9be6a977c945666271657d5699cfe149/view

About this dataset

Contact

hoong_sook_ying@iras.gov.sg tan_pei_ting@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)