The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) has released their statistics on income tax return lodgments for the 2008-09 financial year. The report can be viewed at 100 People and expresses the statistics of 12.3 million income tax return lodgments as 100 people.
A summary of these statistics include:
- An fairly even split showing 52% male to 48% female lodgment ratio
- 71% of people used a Tax Agent to prepare their tax return
- 84% of people received a refund upon assessment of their tax return
- 25% of people did not pay any tax
- 3% of the population paid 31% of the tax collected by the ATO
For more information visit the ATO website.