ASIC today issued its 2025-26 Cost Recovery Implementation Statement (CRIS), which outlines how ASIC will recover regulatory costs from industry under the industry funding model.
For the 2025–26 financial year, ASIC’s total estimated recoverable costs are $400.5 million — a 19% increase from the $337.6 million recovered in 2024–25.
The increase reflects additional funding for ASIC’s regulatory, supervision and enforcement work, along with the timing of expenditure.
The CRIS provides estimated regulatory costs and levies for each of ASIC’s 52 regulated subsectors to help entities plan and budget for levies and fees to be charged.
The statement’s figures are a guide only. Final levies will be published in December 2026 and invoiced between January and March 2027.
ASIC has also simplified its CRIS webpages to make key information easier to locate and interpret.
Background
Entities regulated by ASIC receive an invoice each year for ASIC’s regulatory services under laws introduced by the Australian Government following recommendations from the Financial System Inquiry.
The levies entities pay reflect ASIC’s costs of regulating the subsectors they operate in.
Each year ASIC details how its costs will be recovered from each regulated subsector through industry funding levies and via fees for service.
ASIC’s industry funding model ensures that costs of regulatory activities are borne by the entities ASIC regulates, rather than Australian taxpayers.
More information
- See the 2025-26 Cost Recovery Implementation Statement
- Find out how the government’s industry funding model for ASIC works
- To address recommendations outlined in the 2023 Review of ASIC’s Industry Funding Model, ASIC and Treasury have a five-yearly consultation process with industry to examine policy settings within the industry funding model.
ASIC is Australia’s corporate, markets and financial services regulator.