Scott Morrison is continuing to make the case for the government’s company tax cut plan to be passed.
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The volatile political debate between the two major parties about the long-term vision for tax has left small businesses in the lurch.
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull used part of his address to the national press club to sell the company tax cut.
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The federal government is still trying to convince senate crossbenchers to pass a company tax cut but tax experts and economists dispute all of its supposed benefits.
Taking care of business. Will Trump be hands off?
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One cymbal manufacturer has survived 400 years, but most in-house companies fail to survive through the generations.
Robotics and other farm technologies can provide a wealth of data to farmers and agribusiness.
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The extension of laws on unfair contract terms to cover small businesses, may help farmers take more control of the data their farms generate.
Customers are more likely to behave unethically when they are angry.
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Customers who are angry are more likely to behave unethically, no matter how high the stakes, new research shows.
Children play on the beach in Kuala Terengganu, Malaysia. The country suffers from poor air quality and the haze often blankets the region.
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Research shows SMEs’ engagement in corporate social responsibility depends on the strategic orientation of owners/managers toward CSR.
All for one and one for all.
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Would a competent entrepreneur plough on with a decision that started to look a bit dodgy?
The Wigwam Motel in Holbrook, Arizona, is one of the few remnants of America’s mid-20th century motel boom.
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What does the shuttering of traditional roadside motels say about America’s relationship with travel and freedom?
New RBA changes could mean SME’s can’t rely on commercial credit cards to pay suppliers and wait out long payment terms with big business.
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If the RBA includes commercial credit cards in new caps on interchange fees, small to medium enterprises might not be able to use them as a source of finance.
How have local businesses coped with the end of the resources boom?
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While insolvencies are climbing in some of the resources states, other small businesses have found ways to survive.
How has working life changed?
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Wages are stagnating and women have not benefited nearly as much as men from earlier wage increases. And what if small business isn’t the powerhouse we’ve been led to believe? What recent HILDA data has to tell us about gender, income and work.
Small business create jobs - but not at the rate that large business does.
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Small businesses are important employers. But the problem in the company tax debate is that they haven’t created many jobs. Unlike big business.
Economic reality has intruded on rosy budget predictions for years now and the Pre-election Economic and Fiscal Outlook may soon challenge Treasurer Scott Morrison’s forecasts.
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Budget repair was put off till later, and the net impact of decisions in the budget was small, but it will be easier to defend in the coming election campaign than some other recent efforts.
A company tax cut favours large corporations at the expense of small business.
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Business groups point to a GDP stimulus from a company tax cut, but modelling shows small businesses miss out.
The “free into store” trade terms are being eroded for Australian small business.
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Small importers rely on the seller being liable for any import duty - but that situation is being eroded.
Contract protections for individuals will extend to franchisees.
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Extending individual protections to franchisee owners is supposed to offer protection, but will have the opposite affect.
The informal economy represents about 72% of total employment in sub-Saharan Africa.
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The informal economy in sub-Saharan Africa is largely marginalised despite its significant contribution to employment and GDP.
Window of opportunity? A boy watches a protest by India’s Dalits in Ahmedabad.
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India’s former ‘untouchables’ are struggling to make a mark in business – despite some high-profile successes.
Informal traders at Cape Town ‘s Grand Parade. Survival businesses that are here today and gone tomorrow cannot further long term devemlopment.
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After 1994 the microcredit movement helped plunge large numbers of black South Africans into heavy debt and poverty while enriching a few white elites who provided the loans.
Muhammad Yunus, founder of the Grameen Bank. The micro credit revolution he started has not been a panacea for poverty.
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Microcredit, which was viewed as a perfect market-affirming solution to poverty in developing countries, has collapsed. In 30 years it’s gone from Zorro to Zombie.