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Economy

GST Businesses by Entity Type

IRAS (Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore)

From FY2025 (Apr 2025 – Mar 2026), figures are compiled on a revised basis to include GST-registered businesses only.
Others include Charities, Trusts, Government Bodies, Statutory Boards and Unit Trusts.

Data from 2011 to 2025

Last updated 7 days ago (2 Sep 2026)

Chart: No. of GST Businesses by Entity Type

Data explorer

GSTBusinessesbyEntityType.csv (60 rows, 1.4 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%
2011	Corporate	70292
2011	Sole-Proprietorship	8068
2011	Partnership	3872
2011	Others	1858
2012	Corporate	73939
2012	Sole-Proprietorship	7875
2012	Partnership	3998
2012	Others	1990
2013	Corporate	77359
2013	Sole-Proprietorship	7608

Column legend

Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Financial Year	financial_year	Year (YYYY)	-	-
Entity Type	entity_type	Text	-	-
No Of Businesses	no_of_businesses	Text	-	-

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Sample OpenAPI query

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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 (2026) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved September 9, 2026 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_b6cde411e2fa7098022a0e787fc99c90/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)