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Last updated 23 September 2020

The data for this section relates to liabilities or payments for the most recent financial year.

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Pay as you go summary tables

Table 20: Pay as you go withholding liabilities by entity type, 2015–16 to 2017–18 financial years

Entity type

2015–16

2016–17

2017–18

Entities
(no.)

PAYG withholding
($m)

Entities
(no.)

PAYG withholding
($m)

Entities
(no.)

PAYG withholding
($m)

Individuals

83,624

904

83,577

908

83,614

951

Companies

489,515

127,942

501,346

133,079

517,692

142,034

Partnerships

69,097

2,489

65,701

2,524

62,265

2,531

Trusts

173,251

13,144

174,352

13,811

175,797

15,021

Super funds

7,324

1,012

6,517

1,125

4,974

1,220

Government

3,578

30,229

3,558

31,906

3,505

33,500

Total

826,389

175,720

835,051

183,353

847,847

195,257

To access this data in Excel format, as well as similar data back to the 2006–07 financial year, download Snapshot table 4External Link from data.gov.au.

Table 21: Pay as you go instalments by entity type, 2015–16 to 2017–18 financial years

Entity type

2015–16

2016–17

2017–18

Entities
(no.)

PAYG instalments
($m)

Entities
(no.)

PAYG instalments
($m)

Entities
(no.)

PAYG instalments
($m)

Individuals

1,447,035

21,186

1,501,266

21,432

1,527,021

22,002

Companies

376,246

53,341

389,531

56,791

386,562

63,603

Trusts

5,831

106

6,212

130

5,817

134

Super funds

222,154

9,080

222,985

9,629

225,695

11,053

Total

2,051,266

83,713

2,119,994

87,982

2,145,095

96,792

To access this data in Excel format, as well as similar data back to the 2007–08 financial year, download Snapshot table 4External Link from data.gov.au.

Pay as you go detailed tables

Table 1External Link: PAYG withholding, by broad industry, entity type and type of withholder, 2010–11 to 2017–18 financial years

Table 2External Link: PAYG Instalments, by entity type and broad industry, 2010–11 to 2017–18 financial years

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