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Economy

GST Businesses by Entity Type

Data from Jan 2011 to Jan 2024

Last updated: 09 Sep 2025, 16:54 SGT

IRAS (Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore)
  • Others include Charities, Trusts, Government Bodies, Statutory Boards and Unit Trusts.

Chart: No. of GST Businesses by Entity Type

Data explorer

GSTBusinessesbyEntityType.csv (56 rows, 1.3 KB)

Financial Year
Year (YYYY)
Entity Type
Text
No Of Businesses
Text
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
Others25.0%
Corporate25.0%
Partnership25.0%
Sole-Proprietorship25.0%
(Null)0.0%
2011Corporate70292
2011Sole-Proprietorship8068
2011Partnership3872
2011Others1858
2012Corporate73939
2012Sole-Proprietorship7875
2012Partnership3998
2012Others1990
2013Corporate77359
2013Sole-Proprietorship7608
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Sample OpenAPI query

This code can be used to test a sample API query. It retrieves the data catalogue of this dataset. For a complete guide on query parameters and syntax, please refer to the API documentation. Try it out on your browser to see the response schema.

import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_b6cde411e2fa7098022a0e787fc99c90"
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). GST Businesses by Entity Type (2025) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved May 24, 2026 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_b6cde411e2fa7098022a0e787fc99c90/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)