A company-level review of published Lactalis records across reporting years.
Reporting period
Available ATO years
Data sources
ATO Corporate Tax Transparency
Read time
5 min read
This case study will review Lactalis records across available reporting years, including total income, taxable income, and tax payable. The review should also consider related entities, ownership, and changes across years.
This page should frame the data as a research question, not as a legal conclusion.
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Adecco's own website says it "works for everyone". The ATO data raises a harder question. For nine years, Adecco Holdings Pty Ltd reported an average annual income of $567,553,462 (totalling $5,107,981,156 over nine years), no taxable income, and no company tax payable.
Then the numbers changed — taxable income and company tax appeared. Because transparency data is released years after the event, the public only saw the shift later, raising the question: what changed, and did anyone review the earlier years?
Over 11 years, Apple Pty Ltd reported more than $104.5 billion in Australian total income. Only $4.74 billion became taxable income. That leaves one fair question: where does the profit go?
The government keeps going back to the same old stone, trying to squeeze more blood from workers, small business owners, and mum-and-dad investors. Since the May Budget, capital gains tax and negative gearing have been pushed, pulled, and reshaped under pressure.
But despite the backlash, one thing has not changed. The ATO's own data still raises a harder question: why are ordinary Australians being squeezed again before government chases the money already visible in corporate tax transparency data?