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ato 0.1.0

CRAN release: 2026-04-28

Initial CRAN submission. First public release. Provides R access to Australian Taxation Office public datasets via the data.gov.au Comprehensive Knowledge Archive Network (CKAN) API, with reproducibility, harmonisation, and interop tooling.

Data-access functions

Discovery

ato_catalog(): list all ATO datasets on data.gov.au with their resources, licences, and modification dates.
ato_download(): generic resource downloader with local cache.

Individuals

ato_individuals(): Taxation Statistics Individual snapshot (Table 1).
ato_individuals_postcode(): individual tax return items by postcode and state (Individuals Table 6). Accepts a vector of years (e.g. year = 2018:2022) and returns a stacked panel with a year column.
ato_individuals_occupation(): individual tax return items by occupation (ANZSCO), sex, and income range.
ato_individuals_age(), ato_individuals_sex(), ato_individuals_state(): demographic cuts.

Companies and superannuation

ato_companies(): Company Taxation Statistics across all nine Company Tables via table = ...: snapshot, key_items_by_size, entity_type, industry (default), industry_by_size, sub_industry, taxable_status, source, expenses.
ato_super_funds(): APRA-regulated superannuation fund and Self-Managed Superannuation Fund (SMSF) aggregates.

Other entities, transparency, and aggregates

ato_top_taxpayers(): Corporate Tax Transparency release with sheet switch between income_tax and prrt (Petroleum Resource Rent Tax filers).
ato_gst(): Goods and Services Tax tables and Activity Statement Ratios.
ato_industry(): industry-level aggregates derived from Individual and Company tables.

Integrity, incentives, and international

ato_tax_gaps(): annual Tax Gap estimates across tax heads (individuals, small business, large corporate, GST, excise, PRRT, superannuation guarantee). Treasury cites this series in every MYEFO.
ato_rdti(): Research and Development Tax Incentive claimants, expenditure, and offset data.
ato_irpd(): International Related Party Dealings across annual packages from 2019-20 (Table 1 totals, Table 2 by jurisdiction, Table 3 chart-data index). Core BEPS and transfer-pricing dataset.

Excise, small business, and education loans

ato_excise(): excise rate schedule, Fuel Tax Credit rates, beer clearances, and spirits and other excisable beverages.
ato_sme_benchmarks(): Small Business Benchmarks (industry-specific cost-to-turnover and related ratios).
ato_help(): Study and Training Support Loan statistics covering HELP, AASL (Australian Apprenticeship Support Loans), and VSL (VET Student Loans).

Extended coverage

ato_tax_expenditures(): Treasury Tax Expenditures and Insights Statement (TEIS).
ato_fuel_tax_credits(): FTC claims and rates.
ato_division293(): Division 293 additional contributions tax data.
ato_prrt(): Petroleum Resource Rent Tax aggregates.
ato_compliance(): ATO compliance activity statistics.
ato_medicare_levy(): Medicare Levy Surcharge aggregates.
ato_whm(): Working Holiday Maker tax filings.

Sibling helpers

ato_state_tax(): ABS 5506.0 state and territory taxation.
ato_international(): OECD Revenue Statistics.
ato_rba(): RBA H1 Commonwealth Government Receipts.

Reproducibility spine

ato_snapshot(): pin a session snapshot date, recorded in every ato_tbl provenance header, manifest entry, and citation.
ato_sha256(): SHA-256 digest of a file or in-memory object. Cached downloads carry a sidecar hash verified on every cache hit; drift warns with both hash prefixes.
ato_manifest(), ato_manifest_clear(), ato_manifest_write(): session registry of every fetch (URL, CKAN IDs, SHA-256, size, timestamp, snapshot pin, R and ato versions). Output as data frame, YAML, JSON, or CSV for paper appendices.
ato_deposit_zenodo(): stage a Zenodo deposit payload for the session manifest. Dry run by default; call with upload = TRUE and a ZENODO_TOKEN to mint a DOI.
ato_cite(): citation helper producing plain text, BibTeX, or APA output from an ato_tbl or URL, with optional SHA-256 digest, snapshot date, and doi = argument.

Harmonisation and reconciliation

ato_crosswalk(): bundled classification and reference tables (ANZSIC 2006 to 2020, ANZSCO 2013 to 2021, postcode-state anchors, ABS CPI annual, ABS ERP annual, Final Budget Outcome reference totals).
ato_harmonise(): rename columns to canonical names across multi-year panels using ATO_COL_VARIANTS.
ato_reconcile(): compare an aggregate against the published Final Budget Outcome figure for the same year and measure; warns on gaps above 5 per cent.
ato_deflate(): nominal AUD to real AUD in a base year using bundled ABS CPI.
ato_per_capita(): divide by ABS ERP.

Microdata bridge

ato_to_taxstats(): rename columns between ATO aggregate schema and the taxstats 2 per cent microdata sample schema, in either direction.
ato_schema_map(): return the full column-name mapping.

Utilities

ato_cache_info(), ato_clear_cache(): cache management.

Data handling

ATO confidentiality-suppression tokens (np, n.p., *, and others) are coerced to NA by ato_fetch_csv() and ato_fetch_xlsx() so numeric columns stay numeric.
XLSX header auto-detection: scans up to 15 rows to find the column-header row, handling ATO workbooks that lead with a title, narrative, or Notes sheet.
Every returned ato_tbl carries provenance attributes (source URL, CC licence, retrieval time, title) exposed via print() and ato_cite().

Vignettes

Reproducibility workflow (snapshot, manifest, SHA-256, Zenodo deposit).
Panels, harmonisation, reconciliation, real terms, per capita.
Interop with grattan and taxstats: costing a hypothetical reform.
Canonical replications: top 1 per cent income share, corporate ETR by industry, tax gap trend, HELP debt by age cohort.

Data source

Data is published by the Australian Taxation Office on data.gov.au and ato.gov.au. Most Taxation Statistics datasets are licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 Australia; Corporate Tax Transparency and the Voluntary Tax Transparency Code are licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia. All downloads are cached locally on first use.