The largest business in the Australian photographic industry, Canon Australia Pty Ltd, achieved total revenue of $679 million for Jan-Dec 2016, down $47 million on 2015 revenues.
It made a loss of $34 million before income tax and had a ‘tax benefit’ of just under $8 million, resulting in a ‘total comprehensive loss’ of $26 million.
Over the past six years (2011-2016), Canon Australia has made sales of over $4 billion, with total profits after tax of a meagre $19 million. During this period, it has paid no net tax, but instead enjoyed tax benefits from the ATO of over $20 million. That is, if it wasn’t for tax benefits, it would have lost money on sales of $4 billion.
Canon Australia has contributed income tax, rather than received a tax benefit, in only two of those six years; in 2013 it paid $561,000 on a profit of $4.1 million and in 2015 paid $1.9 million on a loss of $3.3 million, accruing franking credits in the process.
Cost of sales – predominantly the landed cost of products it imports from Canon Inc Japan, was $446 million, down from $451 million in 2015.
The figures reported above relate to Canon Australia Pty Ltd, the business with which the photographic industry trades.
The financial report prepared by Ernst & Young (which also looks after the financial accounts of notorious tax avoiders Google, Apple and Facebook) showed the growing contribution made by the other businesses which comprise the Canon group: Sun Studios; Canon Finance; Canon NZ; Lamberts Business Systems; Oce and Oce Finance; Harbour IT and Converga. Total revenue for the consolidated group of companies went from $786 million in 2015 to $859 million in 2016.
The Canon Store and photographic print services providor Photo Pico are part of Canon Australia rather than the consolidated group.
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