Lessons from Australia: Let the sunshine in!

Jason Ward, CICTAR’s Principal Researcher writes for Tax Justice Network about a new tool to make corporate tax data more easily accessible to everyone:

“With strong civil society and union demands, the Australian government has passed the world’s best multinational tax transparency reporting requirement. The data from this will begin to appear in 2026 and will help shed further light on the tax practices of most of the world’s large multinationals.

Significantly, public support for this measure was in part driven by existing tax transparency reporting in Australia. For the last ten years, the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) has published the total income, taxable income and tax payable for any company with over $200 million in total income.

To help make this ATO data more accessible for everyone, a collaboration between CICTAR, Tax Justice Network – Australia, and researchers from the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) Business School have developed a new tool that pulls together the full 10 years of corporate tax data. Check it out: https://www.infotax.media/data_analytics