Tag: Small Business

Do you buy on eBay? Have you stayed at a place on AirBnB? Have you sold clothes on ASOS? These are all high profile online marketplaces.

Small business has emerged as a relative winner from Joe Hockey’s tough first budget containing long-term structural reforms including painful savings in the areas health, welfare and education.

While the government is rightly attempting to put our fiscal position on a sustainable footing its sense of urgency seems to be at the expense of long-term, broader reform to the tax system.

For business owners, the cleaning requirements of an office space are little more than an invoice that comes in the mail once a month.

It’s been a super month for Government economic statements, in Australia with the long awaited “commission of audit’ report being released just ahead of the usual Federal Budget unveiling.

Automation via robots is an enterprise solution that has traditionally been associated with large scale manufacturing runs, heavy and/or dangerous work, and of course, cost.

Tax specialists have acknowledged that reintroducing the indexation of fuel excise will hurt smaller business owners who will find it harder to pass on costs to consumers and compete with their larger competitors.      The move, likely to be revealed in tomorrow’s budget, is thought to see the 38 cents a litre excise to be […]

Small and medium sized businesses do not want to see an increase in the goods and services tax in next week’s Federal Budget and many are pessimistic about whether the Abbott Government will deliver on its promises for the sector.

‘Seniorpreneurs’ are the fastest growing segment of entrepreneurship, and considered by experts and researchers as the next boom.

When the Commission of Audit report was released last week – replete with sweeping cuts to public spending – it became clear that this years’ budget would be taking no prisoners. We’ve been living beyond out means for too long, and the party is over.