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Serious Financial Crime [ATO-3206]
Fieldwork dates | May 2025 to June 2025 |
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Purpose | To understand public attitudes and beliefs in relation to serious financial crime in Australia. |
Research channel | Online survey |
Researchers | Internal ATO |
Sender's email address | Dynata |
Public Advice and Guidance (PAG) survey [ATO-2948]
Fieldwork dates | Ongoing |
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Purpose | To understand client experience and satisfaction of external stakeholders engaged in PAG consultation with the ATO. |
Research channel | PDF survey |
Researchers | Internal ATO |
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International GST survey [ATO-3146]
Fieldwork dates | Ongoing |
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Purpose | To understand how non-resident businesses become aware of their Australian GST obligations and improve our outreach strategy. |
Research channel | Online survey |
Researchers | Internal ATO (survey sent via direct email) |
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Top 500 private groups tax performance program survey [ATO-1998]
Fieldwork dates | Ongoing |
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Purpose | To understand user experience and feedback with the Top 500 Private Groups Tax Performance program. |
Research channel | Online survey |
Researchers | Internal ATO (survey sent from research tool, Qualtrics) |
Sender's email address | Australian Taxation Office (online survey sent from feedback@survey.ato.gov.au) |
Next 5,000 Experience survey [ATO-1673]
Fieldwork dates | Ongoing |
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Purpose | To understand client experience and satisfaction with the Next 5,000 tax performance program. |
Research channel | Online survey |
Researchers | Internal ATO (survey sent from research tool, Qualtrics) |
Sender's email address | Australian Taxation Office (online survey sent from feedback@survey.ato.gov.au) |
Public Groups and International client feedback surveys [ATO-3143]
Fieldwork dates | Ongoing |
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Purpose | To understand client experience and satisfaction of Public Groups who have engaged with the ATO. |
Research channel | Online survey |
Researchers | Internal ATO (survey sent from research tool, Qualtrics) |
Sender's email address | Australian Taxation Office (online survey sent from feedback@survey.ato.gov.au) |
Tax Practitioners Board survey [ATO-1997]
Fieldwork dates | Biannual |
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Purpose | To understand how the Tax Practitioners Board can work better with tax practitioners and consumers. |
Research channel | Online survey |
Researcher | Internal ATO (online questionnaire sent from research tool, Qualtrics) |
Sender's email address | Australian Taxation Office (online survey sent from feedback@survey.ato.gov.au) |
Consultation process feedback [ATO-3142]
Fieldwork dates | Ongoing |
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Purpose | To understand the consultation experience. |
Research channel | Online survey |
Researcher | ATO (online questionnaire sent from feedback@survey.ato.gov.au) |
Sender's email address | Australian Taxation Office (online survey sent from feedback@survey.ato.gov.au) |
Digital service provider experience survey [ATO-3140]
Fieldwork dates | Annual |
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Purpose | To understand how the ATO can better work with digital service providers. |
Research channel | Online survey |
Researcher | Internal ATO (online questionnaire sent from research tool, Qualtrics) |
Sender's email address | Australian Taxation Office (online survey sent from feedback@survey.ato.gov.au) |
Early intervention strategy survey [ATO-3139]
Fieldwork dates | December 2018 to June 2026 |
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Purpose | To understand the tax agent experience after participating in an interview with ATO Early Intervention staff |
Research channel | Online survey |
Researcher | Internal ATO (online questionnaire sent from research tool, Qualtrics) |
Sender's email address | Australian Taxation Office (online survey sent from feedback@survey.ato.gov.au) |
Tax practitioner open forum survey [ATO-3135]
Fieldwork dates | Ongoing |
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Purpose | To evaluate our program of open forums for tax practitioners to understand client perceptions in terms of relevance, content and timing. |
Research channel | Online survey |
Researcher | Internal ATO (survey sent from research tool, Qualtrics) |
Sender's email address | Australian Taxation Office (online survey sent from feedback@survey.ato.gov.au) |
Community perceptions survey [ATO-1995]
Fieldwork dates | Ongoing |
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Purpose | To measure and track community perceptions about the ATO. |
Research channel | Online survey |
Researcher | Internal ATO (survey sent from research tool, Qualtrics) |
Senders email address | Dynata |
Client experience survey [ATO-1996]
Fieldwork dates | Ongoing |
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Purpose | To measure and track client experiences about the ATO. |
Research channel | Online survey |
Researchers | Internal ATO (survey sent from research tool, Qualtrics) |
Sender's email address | Australian Taxation Office (online survey sent from feedback@survey.ato.gov.au) |