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Economy

Tax and Penalty Arising from Investigations

Data from Jan 2002 to Jan 2024

Last updated: 11 Sep 2025, 08:37 SGT

IRAS (Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore)

Chart: Tax and Penalty Arising from Investigation

Data explorer

TaxandPenaltyArisingfromInvestigations.csv (23 rows, 414 B)

Financial Year Year (YYYY)	No. of Cases Text	Tax and Penalty Arising Text
(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%
2002	65	41349
2003	81	26529
2004	83	22418
2005	92	32412
2006	96	20712
2007	121	16175
2008	122	32391
2009	189	38814
2010	122	64360
2011	136	68219

Column legend

Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Financial Year	financial_year	Year (YYYY)	-	Financial year starts on 1 April and ends on 31 March
No. of Cases	no_of_cases	Text	-	-
Tax and Penalty Arising	tax_and_penalty_arising	Text	S$ Thousand	-

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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_c22092e14ddf8976d49024c2e642abad"
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). Tax and Penalty Arising from Investigations (2025) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved September 18, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_c22092e14ddf8976d49024c2e642abad/view

About this dataset

Contact

hoong_sook_ying@iras.gov.sg melissa_lim@iras.gov.sg

Created on

30 Sep 2016

Licence

Free forever for personal or commercial use, under the Open Data Licence.

Agency

IRAS (Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore)