Section 2: Revisions to agency outcomes

Outcomes, administered items and outputs

Table 1.1 ‘Agency outcomes and output groups’ lists the outcome statements and output groups for the Australian Taxation Office (Tax Office).

The Tax Office has not made any changes to its outcome or outputs since the 2005-06 Portfolio Budget Statements.

Output cost attribution

The Tax Office uses a process of cost allocation to estimate its actual costs incurred on each of the five outputs.

Mappings are based on cost centre manager estimates. The costs of corporate services and facilities, for example accommodation and information technology, are attributed to cost centres using relevant cost drivers. The cost drivers generally represent resource usage or Full Time Employees (FTE). Corporate overhead and some information technology related costs are not attributed to cost centres but are instead attributed to outputs as a final step in the costing process.

Figure 1: Outcome and output structure for Outcome 1

* Transfers — movement of money that is not revenue for example tax offsets, grants, super guarantee vouchers, and benefits distribution.

Revised performance information — 2005-06

The Tax Office has not made any changes to its performance information since the 2005-06 Portfolio Budget Statements.