Motorists parking in Canberra's Parliamentary Triangle fed about $46,000 into Commonwealth meters per day last year.
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The National Capital Authority (NCA) made $16.8 million through parking in the year to July 2016, figures tabled in their annual report showed.
It was a 26 per cent increase on parking revenue the NCA collected on behalf of the federal government the previous year, despite several government departments moving out of the Parliamentary Triangle.
The agency also recouped $1.6 million in parking fines, up 10 per cent from last year.
"Since the paid-parking scheme has been introduced in 2014 paid-parking revenue last year for the full year that it operated was $19 million," Natalie Broughton from the NCA told a joint standing committee on Thursday.
"There's a cost of about $2 million a year to administer the scheme for the NCA ... [and] there has been reduced occupancy from prior to paid parking."
Ms Broughton also told the committee the NCA had not had any complaints about the impact paid parking had on pushing motorists into parking on local streets.
NCA chief executive Malcolm Snow said any overflow of parking onto residential streets was the responsibility of the ACT government.
"Prior to the introduction of the scheme we worked closely with the ACT government in anticipation of encroachment outside the scheme area and that's why prior to the scheme commencing the ACT government put in place new parking restrictions through many of the residential areas. The question of enforcement of the ACT government of those parking restrictions is the issue," Mr Snow said.
Mr Snow said there were also no current plans to expand parking at Parliament House.
"We're aware of the chronic problems associated with parking particularly during peak times when there's high public usage combined with the house and the Senate sitting and we are in discussions with DPS about what options we have to help address that problem both in the short and long term," Mr Snow said.
"Certainly in the close vicinity to Parliament House there are existing public car parks where the utilisation or occupancy levels of those car parks are very low so there is capacity within existing public car parks that are part of the parking scheme for that demand to be met.
"Based on the occupation rates we're getting around the Parliamentary Triangle generally there's still an adequate supply of parking, it's just whether people are prepared to walk slightly more distances to get to them and pay."
