- Description
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This provides information on the time-based cost of compliance data, as reported on the major tax forms used by individuals and businesses. This includes the income tax returns for individuals, companies, trusts and partnerships; BASs (quarterly only) and the fringe benefits tax return. Data is extracted from the time-box label that is included on these forms. Taxpayers may use the time-box to record their estimate of the total time to complete the form in addition to the time required for the compilation of relevant information and record keeping.
The time-box label was introduced in the late 1990s and was placed on all government forms that businesses were required to complete. Recently, this mandatory element was removed, although key forms such as the BAS and tax returns continue to use the time-box label.
There are two time-box labels:
- for simple forms, the label asks taxpayers to estimate the time taken to complete the form (in hours)
- for complex forms, the label asks people to estimate the time taken to prepare for and complete the form (this label is used on the BAS and income tax return forms).
It is not compulsory for taxpayers to complete the time-box. As a result, the percentage of forms with this label completed is generally low. For example, the BAS forms generally have a completion percentage from 25% to 33%, but some forms have a much lower rate than this – between 5% and 10%.
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- Date Published
- 7 April 2011
- Date Updated
- Not specified
- Update Frequency
- Not specified
Dataset Information
- data.gov.au Category
- Business, Community, Finance, Government, Industry, Society
- Keywords / Tags
- 1001, BAS, benchmarks, business, capital, CGT, codes, company, compliance, cost, data, debts, excise, FBT, file, Fuel, fund, gains, GST, GST (Goods and services tax), HELP, Individual, Individuals, Net tax, partnerships, PAYGI, PAYGW, post, postcodes, prescribed private funds, ratio, ratios, sample, schemes, statistics, Stats, Superannuation, Taxation, Taxation statistics, taxstats, trust
- Licence
- Creative Commons - Attribution 3.0 Australia (CC BY 3.0)
- Permalink
- http://data.gov.au/2735
Contributing Agency Information
- Agency
- Australian Taxation Office (View all datasets from Australian Taxation Office)
- Jurisdiction
- Commonwealth of Australia
- Agency Program
- Taxation Statistics 2008-09
Dataset Coverage
- Temporal Coverage
- 2008-09 Financial Year
- Geospatial Coverage
- Australia
- Granularity
- Not specified
