Cost of Tax Collection
Description
This Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore (IRAS) dataset reports the cost of tax collection, expressed as the cost incurred for every dollar of tax collected, for each financial year from 2000 to 2024. The measure is a standard efficiency indicator for revenue authorities: a falling cost per dollar means the agency is collecting the same revenue with proportionally fewer resources. With just a financial year and a ratio in each row, the series is easy to chart and to compare against the collection efficiency of tax administrations elsewhere. Public finance researchers, auditors and policy analysts use it to assess productivity gains from digitalisation and process reform at IRAS.
- Last updated
- Coverage
- 2000-01-01 – 2025-01-01
- Rows
- 25
- Columns
- 2
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Values are summed where multiple rows share the same category.
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| Financial Year | Cost per Dollar of Tax Collected |
|---|---|
| 2000 | 0.87 |
| 2001 | 0.9 |
| 2002 | 0.99 |
| 2003 | 1.01 |
| 2004 | 1.02 |
| 2005 | 0.93 |
| 2006 | 0.83 |
| 2007 | 0.77 |
| 2008 | 0.8 |
| 2009 | 0.88 |
| 2010 | 0.87 |
| 2011 | 0.78 |
| 2012 | 0.79 |
| 2013 | 0.86 |
| 2014 | 0.82 |
| 2015 | 0.83 |
| 2016 | 0.84 |
| 2017 | 0.84 |
| 2018 | 0.8 |
| 2019 | 0.78 |
| 2020 | 0.82 |
| 2021 | 0.69 |
| 2022 | 0.63 |
| 2023 | 0.56 |
| 2024 | 0.58 |
Columns
| Column | Type | Categorical |
|---|---|---|
| Financial Year | Year (YYYY) | No |
| Cost per Dollar of Tax Collected | Numeric | No |