Australian Taxation Office
Australian Taxation Office
Treasury portfolio
Verified figures
- Contracts (all years): 8,187
- Contract value (all years): 12,760,438,384 AUD
- Contract value (2026): 727,814,577 AUD
- APS headcount: 21,186
- Budget 2026-27: 33,357,465 thousand AUD
- Highest total remuneration: 976,575 AUD
- Directory roles: 258
Figures use publishable matches only (alias, abn, exact, case, punct, trading_name, wide_exact). Retrieved 2026-09-01.
Coverage — named in the headline (40)
- 2026-08-19 — Tax ombud canes ATO’s Online Services for Agents
- 2026-08-09 — ATO staff most unhappy over wages
- 2026-07-14 — CPSU targets ATO call centre staff
- 2026-07-02 — ATO says mass WFH outage not connected to strikes at outsourcer DXC
- 2026-06-30 — ATO’s mainframe maintenance staff walk out over pay and conditions
- 2026-06-29 — ATO staff vote-up 24%, three-year pay claim by ASU
- 2026-06-25 — More senior ATO staff poached to lead next APS bargaining round
- 2026-06-08 — Complaints against ATO skyrocket, says inspector general
- 2026-06-02 — ATO reshuffles Enterprise Strategy and Corporate Operations Group
- 2026-05-27 — APSC’s new bargaining chief primed to come from ATO
- 2026-05-13 — ATO the big APS headcount winner in Albo’s property tax crackdown
- 2026-05-06 — ATO staff receive new wage rise claim
- 2026-05-04 — ATO tells 2,000 staff it has a very flash new office for them in Adelaide
- 2026-04-27 — Physical breach raises questions over ATO security
- 2026-04-26 — ATO seeks Presentation Attack Detection to prevent biometric digital ID leaks
- 2026-04-22 — ATO unpacks its AI use case agenda
- 2026-03-15 — ATO issues agency-wide guidance on authorised use and liability of AI
- 2026-03-03 — ATO comms failure left stakeholders in the dark, says tax ombud
- 2026-02-23 — ATO looks to re-engage Services Australia on data
- 2026-02-15 — Information commissioner scrutinises ATO IT review redactions
- 2026-01-28 — Hirschhorn warns ATO staff that they, not AI, are on the hook for decisions
- 2025-12-10 — Method changes lead to qualified ATO audit result
- 2025-11-25 — ATO delays staff security crackdown after ASU intervention
- 2025-11-24 — ATO Program R.I.S.E prepares to replace contact centre core, expand AI
- 2025-11-16 — ‘Quite oppressive’: Dispute erupts over ATO personnel security crackdown
- 2025-11-13 — ATO issues draft rules for agency-wide use of generative AI
- 2025-11-12 — ATO SES high-flyers collect another year of $60,000+ bonuses
- 2025-11-03 — ATO stubs out tobacco excise numbers from tax gap, revenue goes up in smoke
- 2025-11-02 — ATO reshuffles senior executive ranks
- 2025-10-28 — Goodbye clients, hello taxpayers: ATO shifts to compliance-centric lingo
- 2025-10-19 — ATO and tax ombud at odds over tax agent phone advice
- 2025-10-16 — ATO and AHPRA join forces to stop abuse of superannuation funds
- 2025-10-14 — ATO accused of scapegoating juniors after court ruling
- 2025-10-12 — ATO salves staff after Queensland findings of investigative misconduct
- 2025-09-24 — Cut-price chase: ATO hits the high street for cheap smokes
- 2025-09-22 — ATO pulled-up on disabled staff access to union representation
- 2025-09-15 — Tax fraud conviction of ATO insider; bailed to appeal jail sentence
- 2025-09-08 — Fresh challenge to reveal ATO’s tech review secrets
- 2025-09-04 — Seats optional in new ATO office fit out
- 2025-08-28 — ATO whistleblower Boyle escapes jail, receives 12-month good behaviour bond
Passing mentions (10 shown)
Mentioned in the text but not the headline, so often not about this agency.
- 2026-08-26 — Public service poised to get AI-ready
- 2026-08-20 — APS bargaining: ASU doubles down on 8% wage claim for tax office
- 2026-08-19 — Regulators retool for superannuation cleanup
- 2026-08-06 — Movers & Shakers: Bumper Band 1 week
- 2026-08-05 — APSC gives ground on bargaining secrecy, public service sentiment
- 2026-08-05 — Why your government tender failed at the first hurdle
- 2026-08-02 — Coalition puts APS in its crosshairs
- 2026-08-02 — The biggest mistake governments can make is preparing for the last phase of AI
- 2026-07-26 — Monday Briefing: Australia’s tobacco laws
- 2026-07-21 — DTA puts ANAO on the hook for maintaining trust in government AI
Payments to organisations — as reported by the agency
| Category | Payments | Total |
|---|---|---|
| Non-consultancy contracts | 25 | $1,545,432,076 |
| Consultancy | 20 | $11,264,546 |
Largest recipients across all reported years
| Organisation | ABN | Reported total | Years |
|---|---|---|---|
| Accenture Australia Pty Ltd | 49096776895 | $438,069,143 | 2020-21, 2021-22, 2022-23, 2023-24, 2024-25 |
| DXC Enterprise Australia Pty Ltd | 16612896527 | $437,878,395 | 2020-21, 2021-22, 2022-23, 2023-24, 2024-25 |
| Optus Networks Pty Ltd | 92008570330 | $276,575,414 | 2020-21, 2021-22, 2022-23, 2023-24, 2024-25 |
| Leidos Australia Pty Ltd | 79612590155 | $228,103,558 | 2020-21, 2021-22, 2022-23, 2023-24 |
| Probe Operations Pty Ltd | 94624615925 | $85,549,571 | 2021-22, 2024-25 |
| IBM Australia Ltd (+1 other name(s) on this ABN) | 79000024733 | $79,755,390 | 2020-21, 2021-22, 2022-23, 2024-25 |
| The Boston Consulting Group | — | $3,069,075 | 2021-22 |
| Boston Consulting Group | — | $3,058,000 | 2020-21 |
| Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu | — | $1,424,070 | 2021-22 |
| Ernst & Young | — | $1,017,869 | 2020-21 |
| PricewaterhouseCoopers | — | $822,368 | 2020-21 |
| PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting (Australia) | — | $741,077 | 2020-21 |
From the expenditure disclosures in each annual report — a separate source from the AusTender contract figures above, and not directly comparable with them.
Workforce profile — as at 2025-12-31
| Measure | Value | Basis |
|---|---|---|
| % CALD | 36.6% | at this date |
| % Female | 54.9% | at this date |
| % Indigenous | 3.3% | at this date |
| % at the APS classification level | 67.7% | at this date |
| % non-ongoing | 7.7% | at this date |
| % part-time (ongoing employees) | 9.4% | at this date |
| % who have worked in only one agency (ongoing employees) | 85.0% | at this date |
| % with a bachelors degree or higher | 76.7% | at this date |
| % with a disability | 6.4% | at this date |
| Exit rate - from agency (ongoing employees) | 5.8% | Year ending December 2025 |
| Headcount | 21,186 | at this date |
| Mean Age (years) | 43.6 years | at this date |
| Median LOS in APS (years) | 10.7 years | at this date |
| Separation rate - from APS (ongoing employees) | 4.8% | at this date |
APSC APS Employment Data, counting this agency including any bodies beneath it. Headcount, not FTE — the APSED release does not publish FTE.
Year by year
| Measure | 2010-11 | 2012-13 | 2013-14 | 2014-15 | 2015-16 | 2016-17 | 2017-18 | 2018-19 | 2019-20 | 2020-21 | 2021-22 | 2022-23 | 2023-24 | 2024-25 | 2025-26 | 2026-27 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| APS headcount | 24,902 | 24,987 | 23,259 | 21,294 | 20,384 | 20,625 | 20,592 | 20,160 | 20,969 | 21,179 | 21,154 | 20,628 | 21,601 | 21,551 | 21,389 | |
| SES | 257 | 236 | 120 | 116 | ||||||||||||
| Contracts | 1,819 | 1,641 | 1,139 | 1,010 | 822 | 838 | 794 | 124 | ||||||||
| Contract value | $2,033,877,545 | $2,179,008,445 | $1,692,477,034 | $2,007,148,432 | $1,854,529,664 | $1,968,746,283 | $782,629,977 | $242,021,004 | ||||||||
| Budget ($000) | 35,161,527 | 33,357,465 | ||||||||||||||
| KMP disclosed | 16 | 22 | 12 | 1 | 14 | 18 | 7 | |||||||||
| Top total pay | $838,357 | $929,027 | $878,387 | $455,802 | $915,680 | $672,334 | $976,575 |
An empty cell means no publishable row for that year — unknown, not nil. Never read a blank as a fall to zero.
Sources — annual reports
Each link opens transparency.gov.au — the published source the figures were read from. The label names the table to look for.
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