Some tax numbers

NUMBER CRUNCHING

 125 the number of taxes in Australia

6000 the estimated number of pages in the Tax Act

16 the percentage of taxpayers using e-tax

9,429,732 taxpayers, almost 80 per cent, get a refund

$1998 the average refund

1,093,348 taxpayers negatively gear, costing $10 billion

7.6 million the number of people who claimed an average $1920 in deductions for work-related expenses last year

About three-quarters of individual taxpayers are estimated to use a tax agent