The Turnbull government should be focusing on giving new businesses, not small businesses, a tax cut if the aim is ‘jobs and growth’.
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Based on evidence, policies which seek to encourage job creation and innovation via a tax cut should preference large or new businesses, rather than small ones.
Scott Morrison is continuing to make the case for the government’s company tax cut plan to be passed.
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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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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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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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Helen Westerman, The Conversation; Emil Jeyaratnam, The Conversation; Wes Mountain, The Conversation, and Declan O'Hara, The Conversation
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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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.