BUS708: Australian Taxation Office (ATO) - Statistics Assignment

Internal Code: MAS6329

Statistics Assignment:

In Australia, many people need to lodge a tax return after the end of the financial year. They can prepare and lodge their own return or pay a registered tax agent to do it for them. By using a subset of the sample file from the Australian Taxation Office (ATO), your task is to summarise and analyse several aspects of this lodgement method. We are interested to know the proportion of people who lodge a tax return using a tax agent; whether there is a difference among the age groups in terms of their lodgement method; whether there is a relationship between total income and the lodgement method; and the relationship between total income and deduction amount. In addition, you are also asked to collect and analyze a dataset about international students’ preference of tax return lodgement method. Question: a. Give a brief introduction to the assignment, and include a short summary of a related article with a proper citation. b. Give a short description of this dataset. Is this primary or secondary data? What types of a variable(s) are involved? Display the first 5 cases of your dataset. c. Explain how you collect the data and discuss whether your sample is biased. Is this primary or secondary data? What type of variable(s) is/are involved? You don’t need to display your data in this section.