Business - Registration Details - Australia - Free

# Australian Business Registration Details

Australian Business - Registration Details data listing includes data sets from several Australian organisations that have made their data freely available under Creative Commons licencing. The following details the data providers and their data sets.

## Australian Business Register

The Australian Business Register makes the ABN Bulk Extract file available, detailing the registration details for all current and historical ABNs in Australia. An ABN is a necessity for an Australian business to trade in Australia and is used for tax purposes.

See: [https://data.gov.au/dataset/ds-dga-5bd7fcab-e315-42cb-8daf-50b7efc2027e/details](https://data.gov.au/dataset/ds-dga-5bd7fcab-e315-42cb-8daf-50b7efc2027e/details)

## Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC)

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) are responsible for the registration of Company entities as well as business name registrations. Not all businesses will be a company and not all businesses will have a registered business name.

A single "business" may comprise of many entities, and therefore have multiple ABNs, companies registered with ASIC and potentially multiple registered business names.

See: https://asic.gov.au/online-services/search-asic-registers/data-gov-au/

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**Schemas available:**

- ABR contains data coming from the Australian Business Registry Services (ABRS)
- ASIC contains data coming from the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC)

**Tables available:**

- AUSTRALIAN_BUSINESS_REGISTER
- ASIC_BUSINESS_NAMES
- ASIC_COMPANIES