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Collection: Income of Individuals by Income Type, Annual

Dataset: Income of Individuals by Income Type

Economy

Income of Individuals by Income Type

IRAS (Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore)
  • 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: Total Income by Income Type

Data explorer

IncomeofIndividualsbyIncomeType.csv (154 rows, 4.2 KB)

Year Of Assessment
Year (YYYY)
Income Type
Text
Amount
Text
(Null)0.0%
20044.5%
20054.5%
20064.5%
20074.5%
(Null)0.0%
Interest14.3%
Dividends14.3%
Royalties14.3%
Other Types14.3%
(Null)0.0%
2004Dividends3324172
2004Employment Income62022432
2004Income from Trade and Profession4409580
2004Interest211648
2004Other Types902053
2004Rents/ Net Annual Value1005417
2004Royalties3645
2005Dividends2974005
2005Employment Income62275153
2005Income from Trade and Profession4239440
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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 (2026) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved September 9, 2026 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_9be6a977c945666271657d5699cfe149/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)