Stories
Explore public-interest stories based on published Australian tax transparency data. These stories help explain company tax records, industry patterns, and questions that may need closer review.
Tax Transparency Code is a research tool. It does not provide tax, legal, investment, or financial advice. A low or nil tax payable amount does not, by itself, prove tax avoidance.
Featured
A selection of current case studies and industry reviews. Several are still in draft or awaiting data import.
Eight companies — four miners and four banks — pay a large share of all corporate tax payable, while roughly 2,100 other companies pay the rest. This explainer pulls live yearly totals from the published data so you can see the split for yourself.
A review of companies that reported income but no tax payable in the latest published ATO corporate tax transparency data.
An industry review of petroleum companies in the published ATO corporate tax transparency data.
This story will review published Petroleum Resource Rent Tax records once the PRRT data has been imported and checked.
A company-level review of Adecco records in the published ATO corporate tax transparency data.
A company-level review of Lactalis records in the published ATO corporate tax transparency data.
Case studies
Company-specific reviews of published ATO corporate tax transparency records.
A company-level review of Adecco records in the published ATO corporate tax transparency data.
A company-level review of Lactalis records in the published ATO corporate tax transparency data.
A company-level review of Apple records in the published ATO corporate tax transparency data.
Industry reviews
Industry-wide reviews across petroleum, mining, technology, and companies that reported no tax payable.
A review of companies that reported income but no tax payable in the latest published ATO corporate tax transparency data.
An industry review of petroleum companies in the published ATO corporate tax transparency data.
This story will review published Petroleum Resource Rent Tax records once the PRRT data has been imported and checked.
An industry review of mining companies in the published ATO corporate tax transparency data.
An industry review of large technology companies in the published ATO corporate tax transparency data.
Data explainers
Articles that explain how to read the data, what tax payable means, and why total income is not the same as taxable income.
Eight companies — four miners and four banks — pay a large share of all corporate tax payable, while roughly 2,100 other companies pay the rest. This explainer pulls live yearly totals from the published data so you can see the split for yourself.