The Commissioner of Taxation Annual Report 2004-05

How to use this report

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When developing the content of our annual report, we set out to meet not only our parliamentary reporting requirements but also the information needs of the community as a whole.

There are a number of target audiences for our report, including members of parliament, peak bodies, professional associations, consumer groups, the media, potential employees and consultants, and taxpayers in general.

As some parts of the report will be of more interest to you than others, you can read this page to help work out which parts will be most useful. Each part is divided into sub-parts.

Part 1 introduces you to the Tax Office with a review of the year by the Commissioner of Taxation and provides an overview of how we are structured, as well as what we do. It includes reports on the statutory authorities that come under our jurisdiction - the Australian Valuation Office and the Development Allowance Authority.

Part 2 reports on our performance in relation to our outcome and outputs, as published in our 2004-05 Portfolio Budget Statements. This is the nuts and bolts section of the report that describes in detail what activities we undertook and how we spent our budget.

Part 3 describes some of our significant achievements as well as many of the challenges we faced during the year in managing Australia's various revenue products. We have included a number of case studies that will be of interest to a wide cross-section of readers.

Part 4 explains our management practices, including our corporate governance framework, internal and external scrutiny, and how we manage our human resources.

Appendixes 1 to 10 provide:

• a summary of our performance information, in table format (appendix 1)
• freedom of information reporting (appendix 2)
• legislative reporting requirements (appendix 3)
• a list of major consultants engaged during the year (appendix 4)
• advertising, direct mail, market research and media placement conducted during the year (appendix 5)
• financial statements for the Tax Office (appendix 6)
• financial statements for the Australian Valuation Office (appendix 7)
• other matters, such as corrections from last year's report (appendix 8)
• a list of tables (appendix 9), and
• a list of figures (appendix 10).

We have also included a glossary of terms and a list of Tax Office addresses.