Australian Tax Gap Estimates by Tax Type

ATO's official estimates of the "tax gap" - the dollar difference between what each tax should have collected (if all taxpayers complied perfectly) and what was actually collected.

Source: Australian Taxation Office · Licensed CC-BY 3.0 AU · dataset id ato.TAX_GAPS

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curl -H 'Authorization: Bearer ak_your_key' \
  https://api.ausdata.io/v1/data/ato/TAX_GAPS

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ATO's official estimates of the "tax gap" - the dollar difference between what each tax should have collected (if all taxpayers complied perfectly) and what was actually collected. Headline figures by tax type (personal income, corporate, GST, excise) across multiple financial years, published annually. The fastest answer to "how much tax does the ATO estimate is being missed?" - and at what rate. Source: ATO Australian Tax Gaps dataset on data.gov.au.

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