ato: Download and Tidy Australian Taxation Office Data

Fetch Australian Taxation Office ('ATO') Taxation Statistics and related datasets via the 'data.gov.au' Comprehensive Knowledge Archive Network ('CKAN') API <https://data.gov.au/data/api/3/>. Provides tidy access to individual, company, superannuation, goods and services tax ('GST'), fringe benefits tax ('FBT'), Voluntary Tax Transparency Code ('VTTC'), Pay As You Go ('PAYG') withholding, charity, excise, and Corporate Tax Transparency data, plus Division 293, Petroleum Resource Rent Tax, Medicare Levy Surcharge, fuel tax credits, compliance, and Working Holiday Maker aggregates. Includes reproducibility helpers (snapshot pinning, SHA-256 cache integrity, session manifest, optional 'Zenodo' deposit), classification crosswalks ('ANZSIC' 2006 to 2020, 'ANZSCO' 2013 to 2021), panel harmonisation, reconciliation against Final Budget Outcome totals, and real-terms and per-capita helpers backed by bundled Australian Bureau of Statistics ('ABS') Consumer Price Index and Estimated Resident Population series. Bridges to the 'taxstats' 2 per cent microdata sample via column-schema mapping. Data is published by the Australian Taxation Office under Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 Australia or 3.0 Australia licences (dataset-dependent).

Version: 0.1.0
Depends: R (≥ 4.1.0)
Imports: cli (≥ 3.6.0), httr2 (≥ 1.0.0), jsonlite, readxl (≥ 1.4.0), tools, utils
Suggests: digest, knitr, openssl, rmarkdown, testthat (≥ 3.0.0)
Published: 2026-04-28
DOI: 10.32614/CRAN.package.ato (may not be active yet)
Author: Charles Coverdale [aut, cre]
Maintainer: Charles Coverdale <charlesfcoverdale at gmail.com>
BugReports: https://github.com/charlescoverdale/ato/issues
License: MIT + file LICENSE
URL: https://charlescoverdale.github.io/ato/, https://github.com/charlescoverdale/ato
NeedsCompilation: no
Language: en-US
Citation: ato citation info
Materials: NEWS
CRAN checks: ato results

Documentation:

Reference manual: ato.html , ato.pdf
Vignettes: Canonical replications: top 1% share, corporate ETR, tax gap trend (source, R code)
Interop with grattan and taxstats: costing a hypothetical reform (source, R code)
Methodology: hand-computed worked examples (source, R code)
Panels, harmonisation, reconciliation, real terms, per-capita (source, R code)
Reproducibility workflow: snapshot, manifest, SHA-256, Zenodo (source, R code)

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Package source: ato_0.1.0.tar.gz
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