Small business benchmarks

Small business benchmarks are a guide to help you compare your business's performance against similar businesses in the same industry.

We release updated benchmark ratios each year. The most recent data is from the 2019–20 financial year.

In this section

Types of small business benchmarks

Understand small business performance benchmarks for all industries and input benchmarks for domestic trade work

Compare your business now

Use three steps to compare your business against your competitor and see if you are above or below benchmarks

What it means to be outside the benchmark range

Find out why your benchmark is above or below the range for your industry

Correcting a mistake

What to do if you find a mistake in your tax

How we use business performance benchmarks

Understand how we use benchmarks to identify businesses avoiding their tax obligations

Related pages

Benchmarks A-Z

Find out more about each benchmark, sorted alphabetically

Benchmarks by industry

Find out more about each benchmark, grouped by industry

Small business benchmarks methodology and ratio calculations

Find out about methodology and labels used to develop small business benchmarks