Working Holiday Maker tax data

Returns aggregate Working Holiday Maker tax data: number of backpackers, total earnings, tax paid. Relevant for migration and labour-market policy analysis.

Usage

ato_whm(year = "latest")

Source

Australian Taxation Office Taxation Statistics. Licensed CC BY 2.5 AU.

Arguments

year

"YYYY-YY" or "latest".

Value

An ato_tbl.

References

Commonwealth of Australia. Migration Act 1958, visa subclasses 417 and 462; Working Holiday Maker Reform Act 2016. Establishes the 15 per cent flat tax rate from the first dollar of WHM earnings.

Productivity Commission (2016). Migrant Intake into Australia. Includes WHM labour-market analysis.

See also

Other specialist: ato_compliance(), ato_division293(), ato_fuel_tax_credits(), ato_international(), ato_medicare_levy(), ato_prrt(), ato_rba(), ato_state_tax(), ato_tax_expenditures()

Examples

# \donttest{
op <- options(ato.cache_dir = tempdir())
try(ato_whm(year = "2022-23"))
#> Waiting 2s for throttling delay ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■                 
#> Waiting 2s for throttling delay ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■  
#> Error in ato_ckan_resolve(id, "working.holiday.maker|whm|backpacker") : 
#>   No resource in "taxation-statistics-2022-23" matches
#> "working.holiday.maker|whm|backpacker".
#> ℹ Available: "Detailed table Index", "Snapshot - Table 1", "Snapshot - Table
#>   2", "Snapshot - Table 3", "Snapshot - Table 4", "Snapshot - Table 5",
#>   "Snapshot – Table 6", "Snapshot – Table 7", "Industry Benchmarks", "Table F1:
#>   Individual Financial Ratios", "Table F2: Company financial ratios", "Table
#>   F3: Partnerships financial ratios", "Table F4: Trusts financial ratios",
#>   "Table F5: All entities financial ratios", "Table A1: Individual activity
#>   statement ratios", "Table A2: Company activity statement ratios", "Table A3:
#>   Partnership activity statement ratios", "Table A4: Trust activity statement
#>   ratios", …, "Charities - Table 3", and "Charities - Table 4"
options(op)
# }