Tag: Red Tape

Restaurants and cafés will no longer have to produce separate menus for weekends and public holidays when they might apply a surcharge.

Latest Bibby Barometer survey found that small businesses are pessimistic about the outcomes of next month’s Federal Budget, with many hoping, but not expecting, reduced taxation and a cut in red tape.

New research by MYOB reveals policies and initiatives that would turn SME election votes towards the proposing party in the upcoming Federal election.

Government compliance processes are continuing to have a negative impact on the SMB community, with more than 80 percent of respondents in a recent survey reporting they’re struggling with bureaucratic red tape.

The Council of Small Business of Australia (COSBOA) has expressed concern about the health of small business owners Australia-wide following a recent survey by Telstra Business that found more than half will be spending the holidays doing work.

Opposition spokesperson Senator Scott Ryan on how the Federal Government has failed small business:

“Small businesses comprise 96 percent of all Australian enterprises. It is a sector that is only ignored at our greater peril, yet it is one to which this Labor Government has refused to listen.”

Small and medium business owners in Australia would like to see a ‘Small Business Ombudsman’ established to help deal with problems affecting them, with small business owners rating taxes, interest rates and government red tape the biggest problems they face in a national survey conducted by COSBOA and Telstra released today.

Australia’s SMBs believe company tax cuts to be the most important issue in the upcoming federal election, a new Telstra survey has found.

The three top issues for SMBs this Federal Election are tax, employment and red tap, new research has found.

At the Jobs Summit in Sydney yesterday, retailers called on the NSW Government to do more to support jobs during the economic downturn and reduce business costs. They prepared a ‘wish list’ which included full deregulation of trading hours, reducing red tape and dedicating 15 percent of the recently announced 175,000 traineeship places for the […]