Program · Outcome 1: Confidence in the administration of aspects of Australia’s taxation and superannuation systems, including through helping people understand their rights and obligations, improving ease of compliance and access to benefits, and managing non-compliance with the law; and in delivering effective and efficient business registry services
Program 1.1: Australian Taxation Office
The objective of the ATO is to administer aspects of Australia’s tax and superannuation systems providing confidence that the right amount of payments are being made and collected. The Commissioner of Taxation is also Registrar of the Australian Business Register (ABR) under the A New Tax System (Australian Business Number) Act 1999.
Australian Taxation Office, 2026-27 Portfolio Budget Statements, PDF page 249 reported
$4.9bn
2026-27 Budget estimate
+$222m (+4.7%) on 2025-26 estimated actual
Traced to named suppliers and grant recipients
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Published lines
Each row is one line of the program’s expense table in the 2026-27 Portfolio Budget Statements – Program Expense Line Items, as published.
| Line | Kind | 2025-26 estimated actual |
2026-27 Budget estimate |
Change | Treatment | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Departmental appropriation | departmental | $4.4bn | $4.5bn | +$180m +4.1% | reported | Table 2.1.1, row 1261 |
| s74 External Revenue | departmental | $215m | $253m | +$38m +17.8% | reported | Table 2.1.1, row 1262 |
| Expenses not requiring appropriation in the Budget year | departmental | $137m | $136m | −$1.1m −0.8% | reported | Table 2.1.1, row 1263 |
| Ordinary annual services (Appropriation Bill No. 1 and Supply Bill No. 1) | administered | $0 | $4.8m | +$4.8m new | reported | Table 2.1.1, row 1260 |