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Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  TUESDAY, 22 AUG 2006
... based which is 9.2 per cent more than in 1997. Involving 1,040,000 people, this represents about 63 per cent of small business operators. Research conducted in July found that of 503 people surveyed by market researcher TNS and Rice Walker Actuaries ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 AUG 2006
... review consumer protection, privacy and food safety laws. The St.George Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry small business survey reported good growth in sales during the June quarter although profitability remained flat because although labour ...

Budget transitional arrangements for over 65s

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 JUN 2006
... until 1 July 2008. The annual entitlement will operate on a 'use it or lose it' basis, while in a concession to small business owners, the Treasurer also confirmed that the cap would exclude the CGT exempt component from the sale of a small business. ...

All is fair in love and bankruptcy

Small business mums and dads will be the worst affected by the new bankruptcy rule that allows bankruptcy trustees to take away the family home even if only one spouse goes bankrupt, regardless of who paid what for the property. Geoff McDonald, barrister ...

Comm Bank hedges against rising fuel costs

... larger number of businesses access to this type of product which would have previously been out of reach, such as small business operators," he said. And as with any hedging product, investors pay an amount to the bank to cap the diesel index at a given ...

ASFA slams proposal to cut super

KATE HAGE  |  FRIDAY, 28 APR 2006
... particularly have not saved enough for retirement." Smith said the push for the change had come from lobby groups for small business owners who want to avoid the super guarantee altogether. "It is now part of the wage package and is an important component ...

Industry backs tax cut recommendation

... and superannuation funded tourism infrastructure projects. The recommendation, which was made to the Minister for Small Business and Tourism, Fran Bailey, has been welcomed by former Deputy Prime Minister and chairman of Tourism Australia, Tim Fischer ...

Tasplan plays super doctor

Tasmanian-based businesses overwhelmed by changes in superannuation laws are about to get a helping hand from industry fund Tasplan, which has announced it will start providing free superannuation diagnostics. Tasplan's general manager, Neil Cassidy ...

Paragem links with Miles Corporate to help planner group M&As

Paragem Partners, a supplier of AFSL support services, has linked with Miles Corporate, a specialist provider of corporate advisory and business agency services, to help planning firms and accounting practices sell or buy other firms. Tim Miles, managing ...

GPen to flex muscle on pension admin software

... structure. "GPen suffers today from the situation where people look at it and say what a fantastic product but you're a small business and that's too risky for us so people tend to reject companies like us because we're small and tended not to have scale. ...