Tax Avoidance Taskforce highlights 2024–25

See Tax Avoidance Taskforce summary and highlights for the 2024–25 financial year.

Last updated 31 October 2025

About the Tax Avoidance Taskforce

The Tax Avoidance Taskforce (taskforce) aims to prevent, detect and address tax avoidance to ensure the largest and wealthiest taxpayers pay the right amount of tax in Australia. The March 2025 Budget announcement acknowledged the ongoing success of the taskforce through an increase in funding for the 2025–26 and 2026–27 years, and a further one-year extension of the taskforce through to 2028–29.

With this continued investment into the taskforce, we are seeing public and multinational businesses and privately owned and wealthy groups are committing to long term behavioural change. This means taxpayers are shifting their tax position with increasing revenue being taxable in Australia and giving us greater assurance of the integrity of the tax system.

Throughout the year, the taskforce reached further into populations such as the medium and emerging public companies and private groups populations. The taskforce also developed new programs to engage with taxpayers early and address new and emerging risks.

Our engagements with large public groups, multinationals and privately owned and wealthy groups have generated total revenue effects of around $37.6 billion since July 2016. Taskforce funding has helped to generate around $25.1 billion as at 30 June 2025. This includes collections from audit actions and our preventative actions, and sustained compliance.

In 2024–25, our compliance efforts in this population secured $5.2 billion in additional tax revenue from these groups.

Key highlights for 2024–25

We successfully deployed Phase 1 of the Modernising trust administration systems on 1 July 2024. This is a step towards enabling better informed compliance activities to address inappropriate use of trusts.
We appeared at the August 2024 public hearing for the Senate Economics Legislation Committee's Inquiry into the Taxation (Multinational – Global and Domestic Minimum Tax) Imposition Bill 2024 and related bills [Provisions]. Key themes of discussion included our consultation with industry, guidance that is being considered and how these proposed measures interact with other key multinational compliance. The Taxation (global and minimum tax)External Link report was issued in August 2024.
The Full Federal Court allowed the Commissioner's appeal in Commissioner of Taxation v Esso Australia Resources Pty Ltd [2024] FCAFC 151, with costs.

Several public and private groups findings reports were released to the public, including:

findings reports for Top 100 and Top 1, 000 public groups and multinational populations
Public and multinational business tax certainty programs, providing insights and key observations from advice and guidance program to 30 June 2025
findings reports on the Top 500 and Next 5, 000 private groups tax performance programs published on 4 December 2024
Corporate tax transparency report for 2022–23 published on 1 November 2024, highlighting positive shifts in compliance behaviours over the long-term. Following a change in the tax law in 2022, this is the first year that data on Australian-owned private companies with total income between $100 million and $200 million was published.

In addition, the following cases were before the courts:

On 2 and 3 April 2025, the Commissioner's appeal to the High Court against the decision of the Full Federal Court in PepsiCo Inc v FC of T {2024} FCAFC 86 was heard. The ATO has acknowledged the High Court decision in the Commissioner of Taxation v Pepsico, Inc.
On 16 December 2024, the Federal Court of Australia handed down judgment against a Sydney business coach and his company co-director and former tax agent and related entities, The Dream Consortium Pty Ltd and The Dream Accountants Pty Ltd. $13.6 million in penalties were ordered to be paid for breaches of the promoter penalty laws by promoting unlawful research and developments tax incentive tax schemes.
A former EY partner is being sued by the Commissioner of Taxation in the Federal Court for allegedly promoting 3 illegal tax schemes to 7 clients in the 5 years to August 2021. The full hearing began on 31 March 2025. The case is one of only a handful of tax promoter cases brought to court under laws passed in 2006.
The Federal Court ruled in favour of the taxpayer in the Commissioner of Taxation v Bendel decision handed down on 19 February 2025. The High Court has granted the Commissioner special leave to appeal the decision.

Media releases

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