e-Filing your Income Tax Return

Advantages of e-Filing

• Filing taxes is easier
  You may e-File via  myTax Portal with your Singpass or Singpass Foreign user Account (SFA). An acknowledgement page will be shown after you have e-Filed successfully.
• 24/7 access to your account
  Access your account anytime, anywhere!
• Longer filing period
  The filing due date for paper tax form is on 15 Apr each year. However, if you e-File, you have up to 18 Apr to do so.

Steps to e-File your Income Tax Return

Step 1: Get a Singpass or Singpass Foreign user Account (SFA)

Singpass is a common password that you use to access all Government e-Services. You may apply for Singpass online and you should receive it within 4 working days. 2-Step Verification (or 2FA) is required when you use Singpass. Find out more about Singpass.

If you are not eligible for Singpass, you may apply for a SFA online.

Step 2: Prepare the required documents

Before you log in to myTax Portal, make sure you have these documents ready:

• Singpass/SFA
• Form IR8A (if your employer is not participating in the Auto-Inclusion Scheme)
• Particulars of your dependants (e.g. child, parent) for new relief claims
• Details of rental income from your property (e.g. gross rent, expense claims) and other income, if any
• Business registration number/partnership tax reference number (for self-employed and partners only).

Step 3: Log in to myTax Portal

Log in to myTax Portal with your Singpass/SFA. Click on "Individuals" > "File Income Tax Return" to start. This electronic tax form may take about 5-10 minutes to complete. Please clear your cache (temporary internet files) before and after filing.

There are software requirements for accessing myTax Portal. Please refer to the operating systems and browsers that are supported.

Your session will expire if you leave it idle for more than 20 minutes. When this happens, you have to log in to the portal again.

Step 4: Verify your pre-filled income sources and personal reliefs in the main tax form

IRAS will pre-fill the following information in your main tax form:

• All income, deductions and reliefs information provided by the relevant organisations directly to IRAS. For example, employment income from employers participating in the Auto-Inclusion Scheme, donations, NSman Relief.
• Rental income based on your declaration in last year's Income Tax Return or e-stamped tenancy records.
• Reliefs allowed to you in the previous year (e.g. Qualifying Child Relief).

Verify that all the pre-filled information (i.e. income, deductions and reliefs) is accurate and complete. Please check with the relevant organisations directly for any discrepancy. The organisation will resubmit the information to us if there are errors in the original submission and this will be included in your tax assessment. In the meantime, please proceed to e-File your Income Tax Returns by 18 Apr each year.

Step 5: Declare other sources of income

If you have received any other sources of income which are not pre-filled (e.g. rental income), you need to declare the income in your Income Tax Return. Select "+ADD NEW" to open details page and enter your income in the boxes provided to declare your additional income. After filling the details, select "UPDATE" to save the details into the main form.

If your employer is participating in the Auto-Inclusion Scheme (AIS) for Employment Income but details are not shown in the main tax form, tick the box(es) that is/are applicable:

• My employer(s) will be transmitting my income details to IRAS. I do not need to report my employment income details. 
• My employer(s) will not be transmitting my income details to IRAS. I will report my employment income details via the ADD NEW button. 

Step 6: Update existing tax reliefs

Enter your deductions/reliefs in the boxes provided or click on the relevant hyperlinks to:

• Remove the pre-filled reliefs which you no longer qualify
• Change/amend the amount of reliefs which are shared with other claimants
• Make new claims for deductions/reliefs.

Find out more from the Quick Guide for e-Filers (PDF, 330KB).

Step 7: View Consolidated Statement

Step 8: Receive an acknowledgement receipt

An acknowledgement page will be shown after you have e-Filed successfully. You are advised to save a copy or print the page for future reference.