Eight companies — four miners and four banks — pay a large share of all corporate tax payable, while roughly 2,100 other companies pay the rest. This explainer pulls live yearly totals from the published data so you can see the split for yourself.
Reporting period
Available ATO years
Data sources
ATO Corporate Tax Transparency
Read time
5 min read
Published
2026-06-23
A small number of very large companies account for a large share of the corporate tax take. In the published ATO corporate tax transparency data, eight parent companies — four miners and four banks — together pay a substantial slice of all tax payable, while roughly 2,100 other companies make up the remainder.
The charts below are built live from the published data. The first compares the eight companies against everyone else for each reporting year; the second tracks the eight companies' share of total tax payable over time; and the last two break down a single year you choose.
Data noteTotals are pooled sums across the full published dataset for each year. A blank tax payable amount is treated as nil. Figures update automatically as the underlying data changes.
The Numbers, Year by Year
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Data and Supporting Records
These links open the Research data page so you can review the underlying published records for yourself.
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