ATO Debt & Cash Flow

$54.2 billion in ATO debt. Is your business part of that number?

Days, not weeks, to find the cash.
More cost on every dollar you owe.
Less room to breathe.

Sourced from ATO, Treasury and Fair Work Ombudsman data Subject to lender criteria and approval

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What's changed

Three changes. Real consequences.

$35.9 billion of that — 66% — is owed by small business, and climbing every year.

7 days

The super float is gone

Cash you used to hold for weeks is now gone within days.

11.43%

ATO debt now costs more, after tax

Every month you carry it, more of it is a straight loss.

136%

The ATO is coming after directors harder

Director Penalty Notices are up 136% in a year — unpaid debt now carries real personal risk.

Ricky Lecordier, Founder of INFIN8 Finance Group

The rules changed under you — not your management. It can still turn around.

— Ricky, Founder

Debt disclosure to credit bureaus is also trending up — making finance tougher to get the longer it sits.

*Sources: ATO Commissioner Rob Heferen, Senate Estimates 9 Oct 2025 & ATO Annual Report 2024–25; Fair Work Ombudsman & ATO on Payday Super; ATO on GIC/SIC deductibility; DPN figures for FY24–25. General information only, not advice.