Taxation statistics 2009-10

Personal tax

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Table index	Personal tax detailed tables index This table index lists the different items shown in the personal tax detailed tables and specifies which table they appear in.	PDF	XLS
Table 1:	Selected items, by sex and state/territory of residence, 2009-10 income year This table shows the number of taxable, non-taxable, male, female and all personal taxpayers for each state and territory. It also shows their total income, taxable income, net tax payable, average taxable income, average net tax payable, work-related expenses, gifts or donation deductions, total deductions claimed, total business expenses claimed, HELP assessment debts, SLS assessment debts, and the Medicare levy and Medicare levy surcharge.	PDF	XLS
Table 2:	Selected items, by state/territory/region, 2009-10 income year This table shows the number of records and amounts for selected income, deductions, tax offsets and other return items of personal taxpayers living in specified regions within different states and territories (for example, major urban, other urban, regional high-urbanisation, regional low-urbanisation, rural and other regions in New South Wales).
Table 2	Part A: Taxable individuals	PDF	XLS
Table 2	Part B: Non-taxable individuals	PDF	XLS
Table 2	Part C: All individuals	PDF	XLS
Table 3:	Selected items, by state/territory and postcode, for taxable individuals, 2009-10 income year This table shows the number of records and amounts for selected income, deductions, tax offsets and other return items of taxable personal taxpayers living in different postcodes for each state and territory. In addition, the number of non-taxable individuals residing in different postcodes is shown.
Table 3	Part A: New South Wales	PDF	XLS
Table 3	Part B: Victoria	PDF	XLS
Table 3	Part C: Queensland	PDF	XLS
Table 3	Part D: South Australia	PDF	XLS
Table 3	Part E: Western Australia	PDF	XLS
Table 3	Part F: Tasmania	PDF	XLS
Table 3	Part G: Northern Territory	PDF	XLS
Table 3	Part H: Australian Capital Territory, other taxpayers and total taxpayers This part also includes data on taxpayers who are living overseas, taxpayers who did not state their residential postcode on their return, taxpayers living in other grouped postcodes and total taxpayers.	PDF	XLS
Table 4:	Selected items by fine industry, 2009-10 income year This table shows the number of records and amounts for selected items from personal taxpayer returns. Taxpayers and the data are classified into fine industry groupings (determined by the taxpayer's main source of income) based on the ANZSIC 2006 industry groups. To meet privacy regulations, statistics for some items are not reported by fine industries in the different parts of this table. Statistics on items showing a low number of records are reported in table 10 (Selected items, by broad industry).
Table 4	Part A: ATO calculated and miscellaneous items This part also contains the total number of personal taxpayers who lodged returns.	PDF	XLS
Table 4	Part B: Income, credits, selected deductible, withheld and adjustment items.	PDF	XLS
Table 4	Part C: Deduction and tax loss items	PDF	XLS
Table 4	Part D: Tax offset items	PDF	XLS
Table 4	Part E: Business and professional items	PDF	XLS
Table 5:	All items, by taxable income, 2009-10 income year This table shows the number of records and amounts for items taxpayers declare on their personal tax return and items calculated by the ATO, based on information provided on the return. Taxpayers and the data are classified by taxable status (non-taxable and taxable) and are grouped by taxable income.
Table 5	Part A: ATO calculated and miscellaneous items This part also contains the total number of personal taxpayers who lodged returns.	PDF	XLS
Table 5	Part B: Income, credits, selected deductible, withheld and adjustment items	PDF	XLS
Table 5	Part C: Deduction and tax loss items	PDF	XLS
Table 5	Part D: Tax offset items	PDF	XLS
Table 5	Part E: Business and professional items	PDF	XLS
Table 6:	Number of individuals, by broad industry and state/territory/region, 2009-10 income year This table shows the number of personal taxpayers classified by broad industry in specified regions in different states and territories (for example, major urban, other urban, regional-high urbanisation, regional-low urbanisation, rural and other regions in New South Wales). A region category is composed of postcodes grouped together according to specified population ranges. The broad industry groups used to classify personal taxpayers are based on the ANZSIC 2006 industry groups.	PDF	XLS
Table 7:	Selected items for income years 1978-79 to 2009-10 This table shows the number of records and amounts for selected items from the individual tax return (including items calculated by the ATO) for all income years between 1978-79 and 2009-10.	PDF	XLS
Table 8:	Non-resident individuals selected items, by taxable income, 2009-10 income year This table shows the number of records and amounts for selected items from the individual tax return of non-resident taxpayers only. For this table, taxpayers and the data are grouped by taxable income.	PDF	XLS
Table 9:	One percentile distribution, by taxable income, 2009-10 income year This table shows a distribution of taxable income, total income, net tax and number of taxpayers. Taxable income is distributed across 100 quantiles, with each quantile containing 1% of the total number of taxpayers. The table shows the number of male and female taxpayers, and the amount and proportion of total income, taxable income and net tax for each quantile.	PDF	XLS
Table 10:	Selected items, by broad industry, 2009-10 income year This table shows the number of records and amounts for selected items that are not included in personal tax detailed table 4 (Selected items, by fine industry). Taxpayers and the data are classified into broad industry groupings (determined by the taxpayer's main source of business income) based on the ANZSIC 2006 industry groups.	PDF	XLS
Table 11:	Selected items, by age, sex, taxable status and taxable income, 2009-10 income year This table shows the number of male, female and total personal taxpayers classified into different age brackets (from 'under 18' to '75 years and over') and broken down by taxable income. The pension income, net tax payable, taxable income and total income of male, female and total taxpayers in the different age brackets and taxable income ranges are also shown.	PDF	XLS
Table 12:	Selected items, by sex, partner status, state/territory and taxable income, 2009-10 income year This table shows the number of single and partnered male, female and total personal taxpayers, classified by state or territory and broken down by taxable income. The taxable income, total income and net tax payable of male, female and total taxpayers in the different states, territories and taxable income ranges are also shown.	PDF	XLS
Table 13:	Selected items, by occupation code and sex, 2009-10 income year This table shows the number of records and amounts for selected income, deductions, tax offsets, and other return items of taxable personal taxpayers classified by salary and wage occupation codes. In addition, the number of non-taxable individuals classified by occupation code is shown. The occupation codes are based on information provided on the individual tax return.
Table 13	Part A: Males	PDF	XLS
Table 13	Part B: Females	PDF	XLS
Table 13	Part C: All individuals	PDF	XLS
Table 14:	All items, by total income, 2009-10 income year This table shows the number of records and amounts for items taxpayers declare on their personal tax return and items calculated by the ATO, based on information provided on the return. Taxpayers and the data are broken down by total income.
Table 14	Part A: ATO calculated and miscellaneous items This part also contains the total number of personal taxpayers who lodged returns.	PDF	XLS
Table 14	Part B: Income, credits, selected deductible, withheld and adjustment items	PDF	XLS
Table 14	Part C: Deduction and tax loss items	PDF	XLS
Table 14	Part D: Tax offset items	PDF	XLS
Table 14	Part E: Business and professional items	PDF	XLS
Table 15:	Taxpayers with business income, all items, by total business income, 2009-10 income year This table shows the number of records and amounts for items taxpayers declare on their personal tax return and items calculated by the ATO, based on information provided on the return. Taxpayers and the data are broken down by total business income. The statistics in the table refer only to taxpayers who had business income or losses.
Table 15	Part A: ATO calculated and miscellaneous items This part also contains the total number of personal taxpayers who lodged returns.	PDF	XLS
Table 15	Part B: Income, credits, selected deductible, withheld and adjustment items	PDF	XLS
Table 15	Part C: Deduction and tax loss items	PDF	XLS
Table 15	Part D: Tax offset items	PDF	XLS
Table 15	Part E: Business and professional items	PDF	XLS
Table 16:	Rental property schedules, by state of property, 2009-10 income year This table shows the number of rental property schedules by the state/territory location of the property, for all income and expense items on the schedule. The number of schedules does not correlate to the number of rental properties because of double counting. Properties can be jointly owned, or can be bought and sold during the same income year, resulting in more than one schedule being completed by different individuals for the same property.	PDF	XLS
Table 17:	Taxable income compared to total income, by ranges, 2009-10 income year This table shows the distribution of taxable individuals across taxable income and total income groupings.	PDF	XLS
Table 18:	Individuals incurring a HELP debt posting during an income year, by birth year range, 2007-08 to 2009-10 income years This table shows the number of individuals who incurred a HELP debt posting, by birth year range, during the 2007-08 to 2009-10 income years. It also shows the total value of the debt postings raised and the value of payments made for these individuals.	PDF	XLS
Table 19:	HELP debt by age of debt since 1989, as at 30 June 2010 This table shows the number of individuals who have a debt by the end of the 2009-10 income year, and the sum of their debt by the age of the debt in years.	PDF	XLS
Table 20:	Postcodes of individuals with a HELP debt since 1989 yet to be repaid by 30 June 2010 This table shows the number of individuals who have a debt as at 30 June 2010, and the sum of their debt by postcode.	PDF	XLS
Table 21:	All items, by lodgment method, 2009-10 income year This table shows the number of records and amounts for items taxpayers declare on their personal tax return and items calculated by the ATO based on information provided on the return. Taxpayers and the data are classified by the method by which they have lodged their income tax returns, either via e-tax, a tax agent or self prepared on paper.
Table 21	Part A: ATO calculated and miscellaneous items This part also contains the total number of personal taxpayers who lodged returns.	PDF	XLS
Table 21	Part B: Income, credits, selected deductible, withheld and adjustment items	PDF	XLS
Table 21	Part C: Deduction and tax loss items	PDF	XLS
Table 21	Part D: Tax offset items	PDF	XLS
Table 21	Part E: Business and professional items	PDF	XLS
Table 22:	Overview of the individual tax system, 1950-51 to 2009-10 This detailed table provides an overview of various aspects of the tax system that applied to individuals in each income year. This includes the tax rates and thresholds that applied, general offsets allowed and associated thresholds, Medicare rates and thresholds.
Table 22	Part A: 1950-51 to 1959-60	PDF	XLS
Table 22	Part B: 1960-61 to 1969-70	PDF	XLS
Table 22	Part C: 1970-71 to 1979-80	PDF	XLS
Table 22	Part D: 1980-81 to 1989-90	PDF	XLS
Table 22	Part E: 1990-91 to 1999-2000	PDF	XLS
Table 22	Part F: 2000-01 to 2009-10	PDF	XLS
Table 23	Individuals with net income from business operations, by broad industry, 2008-09 and 2009-10 income years This table shows numbers and amounts of net business income and net business losses for 2008-09 and 2009-10. The broad industry groups used to classify personal taxpayers are based on the ANZSIC 2006 industry groups.	PDF	XLS
Table 24:	Medicare levy surcharge by age, sex and income, 2009-10 income year This table shows numbers and amounts of Medicare levy surcharge by age, sex and income.	PDF	XLS
Table 25:	Pre-filling statistics, 2007-08 to 2009-10 income years This is a series of graphs showing when data is received by the ATO for the pre-fill service.
Table 25	Part A: Pay as you go (PAYG) data available for pre-filling	PDF
Table 25	Part B: Government data available for pre-filling	PDF
Table 25	Part C: Interest data available for pre-filling	PDF
Table 25	Part D: Dividends data available for pre-filling	PDF
Table 25	Part E: Managed funds data available for pre-filling	PDF
Table 25	Part F: Private health insurance policy details available for pre-filling	PDF
Table 26:	Individuals, by average taxable income and location, 2009-10 income year This is a series of maps showing the distribution of individuals' average taxable income across Australia, the states and territories by their residential postcode.
Table 26	Part A: New South Wales	PDF
Table 26	Part B: Victoria	PDF
Table 26	Part C: Queensland	PDF
Table 26	Part D: South Australia	PDF
Table 26	Part E: Western Australia	PDF
Table 26	Part F: Tasmania	PDF
Table 26	Part G: Northern Territory	PDF
Table 26	Part H: Australian Capital Territory	PDF
Table 26	Part I: Australia	PDF
	To meet privacy regulations, statistics for some items may not be included in these tables.

Sections within Detailed tables and description

• Personal tax
• Company tax and the petroleum resource rent tax
• Superannuation funds
• Partnerships
• Trusts
• Capital gains tax
• Fringe benefits tax
• Payments and transfers through the income tax system
• Charities and deductible gifts
• International taxation
• GST and other taxes
• Excise
• Fuel schemes
• Superannuation system
• Pay as you go
• Cost of taxation compliance
• Industry benchmarks
• Individual sample file