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Collection: Income of Individuals by Income Type, Annual

Dataset: Assessable Income of Individuals by Tax Group

Economy

Assessable Income of Individuals by Tax Group

IRAS (Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore)

Taxable Group means those with net tax payable after taking into account allowable tax credits, tax remission, tax rebates and tax deducted at source.
Number of Individuals Assessed includes tax clearance cases for non-citizens.
Approved Donations refer to the total tax deductions granted in respect of qualifying donations. For the Year of Assessment (YA)2010 to YA2015 and YA2017 onwards, the amount of tax deduction granted is 2.5 times the amount of qualifying donation made. For YA2016, the amount of tax deduction granted is 3 times the amount of qualifying donation made.
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 Jan 2004 to Jan 2025

Last updated 1 month ago (02 Sep 2026)

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_96c222428732ed780a2d649c0d8105f9"
url = "https://data.gov.sg/api/action/datastore_search?resource_id="  + dataset_id 
        
response = requests.get(url)
print(response.json())

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)

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Economy

Assessable Income of Individuals by Tax Group

IRAS (Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore)

Taxable Group means those with net tax payable after taking into account allowable tax credits, tax remission, tax rebates and tax deducted at source.
Number of Individuals Assessed includes tax clearance cases for non-citizens.
Approved Donations refer to the total tax deductions granted in respect of qualifying donations. For the Year of Assessment (YA)2010 to YA2015 and YA2017 onwards, the amount of tax deduction granted is 2.5 times the amount of qualifying donation made. For YA2016, the amount of tax deduction granted is 3 times the amount of qualifying donation made.
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 Jan 2004 to Jan 2025

Last updated 1 month ago (02 Sep 2026)

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Data explorer

AssessableIncomeofIndividualsbyTaxGroup.csv (44 rows, 2.5 KB)

Year Of Assessment Year (YYYY)	Tax Group Text	No Of Indv Assessed Text	Total Income Text	Donations Text	Assessable Income Numeric
(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0% Taxable Group50.0% Non-Taxable Group50.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%
2004	Non-Taxable Group	1019375	18385892	90979	18294913
2004	Taxable Group	714843	53493055	163238	53329817
2005	Non-Taxable Group	797513	15578286	76568	15501718
2005	Taxable Group	731348	56015862	170457	55845405
2006	Non-Taxable Group	691441	14288278	143223	14145055
2006	Taxable Group	769599	61192026	180755	61011271
2007	Non-Taxable Group	665342	14540789	83833	14456956
2007	Taxable Group	856833	70184019	198205	69985814
2008	Non-Taxable Group	655892	14623836	94935	14528900
2008	Taxable Group	960815	84224700	262416	83962284

Column legend

Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Year Of Assessment	year_of_assessment	Year (YYYY)	-	-
Tax Group	tax_group	Text	-	-
No Of Indv Assessed	no_of_indv_assessed	Text	-	-
Total Income	total_income	Text	S$ Thousand	-
Donations	donations	Text	S$ Thousand	-
Assessable Income	assessable_income	Numeric	S$ Thousand	-

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Assessable Income of Individuals by Tax Group

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