Contractor Expenditure Statistics
Dear Australian Taxation Office,
This is informal / administrative FOI request in nature to save both of our costs.
Do you have any statistics about contractor expenditure from previous and current financial years and what type of aggregates and non-aggregates are available?
Is there some type of schema or any document that describes how the statistics are done for contractor expenditure e.g. vs full time employee / hiring expenditure.
I'm also interested on what time period/s are being tracked for these kind of statistics to assists on writing correct requests. Thank you!
Yours faithfully,
MissAnonymous
Dear ATO
Attn FOI,
Thank you for the assistance of providing Contactor Expenditure Statistics.
Please enjoy the rest of the week - this was a great help.
Yours sincerely,
MissAnonymous
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Q Do you have any statistics about contractor expenditure from previous and current financial years and what type of aggregates and non-aggregates are available?
A: The ATO annual report is available to you at ato.gov.au by searching for “QC33427” which includes a number of different types of contractor’s expenditure including supplier and consultant arrangements. ATO contracts are also published on AusTender: https://www.tenders.gov.au
Annotation: QC33427 is the annual report - https://www.ato.gov.au/about-ato/commitm...
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Q: Is there some type of schema or any document that describes how the statistics are done for contractor expenditure e.g. vs full time employee / hiring expenditure.
A: The ATO annual report contains expenditure on ongoing, non-ongoing and casual employees and contractors. The ATO has a number of types of contractor arrangements, however none of these arrangements are directly comparable to a full time equivalent for the ATO’s APS staff.
For outsource and vendor arrangements the ATO contracts for an outcome rather than a specific quantity of resources. In addition to the annual report, for the 2021-2022 Financial year only, see the Australian Government’s Report on the Audit of Employment (available on the Department of Finance website) which aggregated External Labour by Job category. See https://www.finance.gov.au/publications/... and https://www.finance.gov.au/sites/default...
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Q: I’m also interested on what time period/s are being tracked for these kind of statistics to assists on writing correct requests
The ATO undertakes reporting on a monthly and annual basis. In very general terms, the ATO tracks a number of different types of contractor expenditure including labour hire, outsource and vendor arrangements. This information is also split by IT and Non-IT and is tracked to the different business areas of the ATO.
It should be noted that the Australian Government’s Audit of employment schema referred to in the previous question, would not be available for other financial years on a monthly basis. Not all statistics are verified on a monthly basis.