From 1 January 2011 the Government's Paid Parental Leave Scheme (GPPL) will come into effect and will have implications for many business owners.
When it comes to interest rates, small businesses have had a rough time lately. They’ve had to cope with tough lending conditions from the big banks and now another interest rate rise.
There has been much talk and speculation recently with the Australian dollar hitting parity twice with the US dollar in the last month alone (the last time parity occurred was in July 1982).
It was announced last week that Azure Group made the BRW list of the top 100 fastest growing businesses in Australia.
Recent changes, which came into effect on 28 June 2010, may affect your company's financial reporting obligations with ASIC.The changes were introduced by the Federal Government with the aim of..
The Government has introduced the R&D Tax Credit to replace the existing R&D Tax Concession with a more certain, more generous research and development incentive for business, particularly SMEs.
The ATO has numerous targeted audit and matching programs annually. The ATO is fast becoming adept at installing and using the best technology to find tax cheats, and has already spent $800 million..
As someone who works with small and medium sized businesses I frequently get asked, “How are SMEs faring?” At the moment my answer would be they are operating amid a great deal of uncertainty...
