Technical File Format/Specifications

We support two types of file formats

1. text (.txt) file or
2. Extensible Markup Language (.xml) file.

If you are a payroll software vendor or participating company using internally developed payroll software, you can download the file format/ specifications attached below and make changes to your payroll software.

• TXT file format for all forms  (835KB) 
• Sample TXT files for all forms  (2KB) 
• XML schema for all forms  (15KB) 
• Sample XML files for all forms  (9KB)  
• Country and nationality code  (224KB) 
• Things to note for both TXT and XML  (269KB) 
• FAQs  (179KB)  

If you have any enquiries on the Technical File Format/Specifications, please email to esub-tech@iras.gov.sg.