Version changes

The ATO’s purpose has been updated to define the core reason we exist, which is to collect tax so that the government can deliver services for the Australian community.

The TPB’s purpose has been updated to focus on supporting public trust and confidence in the integrity of the tax profession and the tax system.

The ATO’s vision, which sets out what we are striving to achieve, has been refreshed to focus on taxpayers meeting their obligations.

The TPB’s vision has been refreshed to focus on a strong tax profession and tax system for the benefit of all Australians.

Program 1.3: Australian Business Registry Services (ABRS) Program has been retired following the transfer of responsibility for business registers from the ATO to ASIC and cessation of the Modernising Business Register (MBR) program. The responsibilities of the Registrar of the ABR will be included in Program 1.1 from 2025–26.

The ATO’s key activities have been consolidated from 6 to 4 to focus on activities that are material to performance of the ATO in achieving its purpose. Coverage of key activities relating to our enabling functions are repositioned under our organisational capabilities.

The ATO has removed core priorities noting the inclusion of non-mandatory content should be limited to aid readability of the plan. To aid readers, we have included additional narrative to outline the broad range of activities that contribute to the achievement of the key activities.

The TPB has refreshed its key activity to focus on increasing trust and confidence and supporting the profession.

The operating context for the ATO, TPB and ACNC has been included.

The coverage of organisational capabilities for the ATO has been expanded to incorporate previous key activity content and additional capabilities that contribute to delivering on our purpose.

Regulator performance details have been included across ATO, TPB and ACNC.

Performance measures have been refined to ensure effective measurement of the entity’s performance in achieving the entity’s purposes in the reporting period. The inclusion of rationales and methodologies for each performance measure is designed to aid the reader.

Resulting from the update to the ATO’s purpose and key activities, changes, ceasing of programs and streamlining our reporting, the following performance measures have been removed:

• Digital – Proportion of inbound transactions received digitally for key services.
• Digital – Proportion of written outbound interactions issued digitally.
• Working together – partner perceptions of how the ATO is working together with them to administer the tax and superannuation systems.
• Tax returns – Proportion of prefilled items accepted without change.
• Identity matching – Proportion of data items matched to client identifiers.
• Availability – Key digital systems availability.
• Increased use of the ABR as the national business dataset.
• 1.6 Junior Minerals Exploration Incentive
  • all applications received are processed and taxpayers notified of their exploration credit allocation within 28 calendar days of the application period closing
  • public reporting data uploaded on data.gov.au (and linked to ato.gov.au) within 56 calendar days of the application period closing after determination letters are issued.
• 1.14 Superannuation Guarantee Scheme
  • superannuation guarantee charge raised and distributed within 12 months
  • superannuation guarantee charge distributed as a proportion of superannuation guarantee charge raised.

Further changes have been made to the suite of performance measures to ensure appropriate and meaningful performance measurement. These variations are captured under each individual measure in the performance section of this plan.