#performance benchmarks

Australian tax office has huge database of information regarding the industry operations and have benchmarks of performance in various industries. They use various financial ratios in order to compare the performance of individual business with that of industry performance.

You need to ensure that you select correct industry code along with your tax return in order to ensure that you fall under correct business code.

These benchmarks are expectations of ATO from individual businesses and expect the same level of performance than that. Business operating out of benchmark may attract the attention of ATO.