Australian Bureau of Statistics

July 2023 — June 2030

BDTI Phase 2 provides a pathway off legacy ICT systems, ensuring the Australian Bureau of Statistics maximises the reuse of new tools and lessons across the organisation. The project involves rebuilding and securing the Consumer Price Index (CPI) ICT system, delivering a complete monthly measure of the CPI, building the business statistics production process in the cloud, replacing the legacy Business Register with an expanded Business Characteristics Asset in the cloud, and industrialising the Australian Bureau of Statistics cloud environment. At the time of preparing this report, this project is subject to the escalation protocols set out in the Assurance Framework for Digital and ICT Investments. These protocols are designed to support agencies in the timely resolution of delivery challenges.

Australian Taxation Office

July 2024 — June 2028

The Counter Fraud Program will strengthen the Australian Taxation Office’s ability to prevent, detect, contain and bring consequence to fraud and financial crime against the tax and superannuation systems.

Department of the Treasury

September 2020 — June 2025

The Treasury is undertaking a transformation program to support the government’s foreign investment framework and replace the current Foreign Investment Management System. This program will deliver a fully functional end-to-end case management system, a register of foreign ownership of Australian assets, and an improved analytics capability. On 25 June 2025, the FIDT Program was formally closed following the successful delivery of all approved program outcomes. As part of the program closure, Treasury successfully transitioned the capabilities into ongoing sustainment and support.

Australian Taxation Office

September 2024 — June 2028

The Payday Super project will address the systemic issue of unpaid and underpaid super guarantee by employers, by moving the obligation to pay from a quarterly to payday cycle. The Australian Taxation Office is building and improving data matching capabilities to match employers’ payroll data with super contribution data, providing it with near real-time visibility as to whether employers have met their obligations. The government will also redesign the super guarantee legislation in line with the move to payday super. Penalties and charges will reflect the serious nature of unpaid or underpaid super guarantee and will be recalibrated to encourage prompt rectification of non-payment with scalable consequences to deter severe or repeated non-compliance. At the time of preparing this report, this project is subject to the escalation protocols set out in the Assurance Framework for Digital and ICT Investments. These protocols are designed to support agencies in the timely resolution of delivery challenges. The delivery confidence of the program has improved following the passage of legislation in November 2025.

Australian Securities and Investments Commission

November 2023 — June 2030

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) RegistryConnect Program will deliver reliable, secure, trusted and efficient registry services to support the economy for the benefit of all Australians. The program’s objectives include: stabilising Registry technology to increase the security, reliability and performance of ASIC registers; modernising and uplifting the registers, user channels and interfaces; improving the quality and integrity of registry data; achieving policy and law reform; and developing enduring capabilities.

Australian Bureau of Statistics

January 2022 — December 2027

The Census and Statistics Act 1905 requires the Australian Bureau of Statistics to conduct a Census every 5 years. The Census provides the base for official counts of Australians and the dwellings they live in. It is a snapshot of the economic, social and cultural make-up of the nation, and tells the story of how Australia is changing over time.

Australian Taxation Office

July 2023 — September 2027

The BTSC measure aims to reduce tax concessions for individuals with a total superannuation balance exceeding $3 million, effective from 1 July 2026. This project is enabling the delivery of this measure with first assessments expected to be issued in the second half of 2027–28.

Australian Securities and Investments Commission

July 2024 — June 2028

The Cyber DTx Initiative will enhance existing cyber capabilities to secure ASIC’s existing and future networks, systems and data. The program will deliver a range of capabilities that secure ASIC regulatory systems and uplift maturity against the Cyber Essential Eight Maturity Model.

Australian Bureau of Statistics

January 2025 — June 2027

The Australian Bureau of Statistics Data Acquisition Modernisation program aims to: • improve the digital experience for key surveys and allow for modern, accessible, and secure data collection processes • transform and modernise the Australian Bureau of Statistics contact centre to improve the experience for our customers and staff • continue to modernise and replace legacy IT systems by transitioning key products and processes to a secure and scalable cloud environment.

Australian Prudential Regulation Authority

July 2024 — June 2028

The GUIDE program is a multi-year strategic investment in data capabilities and security position of the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA), including APRA’s supervision management system. By investing in data governance, security and infrastructure, the program aims to ensure that APRA can continue to effectively fulfil its mandate, mitigate risks and support the stability and resilience of the Australian financial system.

Australian Taxation Office

July 2023 — June 2028

The Global Minimum Tax and Domestic Minimum Tax are part of a coordinated effort to address tax challenges arising from the digitalisation of the economy. Australia, along with more than 130 other jurisdictions, agreed to a statement that set out the framework for Pillar 2 (the Global Anti-Base Erosion [GloBE] Model Rules). Implementing Pillar 2 will further strengthen Australia’s ability to address multinational tax avoidance. The investment provides the Australian Taxation Office with the means to ensure resources are available for the ICT and data requirements to implement and administer this measure, as well as ensuring a strong ongoing compliance, advice and education focus to support the in-scope population. At the time of preparing this report, this project is subject to the escalation protocols set out in the Assurance Framework for Digital and ICT Investments. These protocols are designed to support agencies in the timely resolution of delivery challenges.

Australian Taxation Office

January 2025 — June 2029

Improvements to Australian Taxation Office systems will reduce compliance costs on an ongoing basis for trustees, beneficiaries and tax agents – making lodgement easier and enabling the vast majority of trust tax returns to be lodged electronically. The improvements will also enable prefill of trust income for beneficiaries, in the same way salary and wages, bank interest and other types of income are currently prefilled. Prefill capability will be enhanced by proposed legislative amendments that require trustees to report the Tax File Numbers of beneficiaries on the trust income tax return’s Statement of Distribution when they have an entitlement to trust income.

Australian Competition and Consumer Commission

July 2023 — June 2026

The NASC is a world-leading initiative to make Australia the hardest country for scammers to victimise citizens in. It will disincentivise scammers from targeting Australia and result in significantly less scam attempts.

Australian Taxation Office

June 2024 — December 2029

The Critical Minerals Production Tax Incentive were announced in the 2024–25 Budget under the measure, Future Made in Australia – Making Australia a Renewable Energy Superpower. The Australian Taxation Office is responsible for assessing tax claims under this project, including assessing payment eligibility, and processing tax payments, in consultation with Department of Industry, Science and Resources.

Australian Taxation Office

January 2018 — December 2026

The program focuses on uplifting Cyber Essential Eight Maturity to Level 2, providing fit-for-purpose security services to protect the Australian Taxation Office’s digital ecosystem. The program’s outcomes will increase the Australian Taxation Office’s cyber maturity by delivering enhanced cyber capabilities and technologies.

Australian Taxation Office

June 2024 — December 2029

The Hydrogen Production Tax Incentive were announced in the 2024–25 Budget under the measure, Future Made in Australia – Making Australia a Renewable Energy Superpower. The Australian Taxation Office is responsible for assessing tax claims under this project, including assessing payment eligibility, and processing tax payments, in consultation with the Clean Energy Regulator.

Department of the Treasury

July 2024 — June 2026

This ICT infrastructure rebuild supports improved reporting following reforms to the Payment Times Reporting Scheme. A modern portal will streamline and reduce the regulatory burden of reporting, and the public will be able to search and interrogate payment times information, including the best and worst paying large businesses using new dashboards. Increasing the transparency of large businesses’ payment performance towards their small business suppliers can incentivise fairer and faster payments to small business.