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Federal budget 2023: Winners and losers

TOM WATSON  |  TUESDAY, 9 MAY 2023
... see over five million households benefit from reductions of up to $500 on their electricity bills, and eligible small businesses up to $650. Workers receiving quarterly super: Workers who are currently paid superannuation installments from their employers ...

Budget cuts advisers' power bills, admin burden

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 9 MAY 2023
... promised to make interactions with the Australian Taxation Office quicker. "The measures will allow more time for small businesses to amend tax returns, trial ATO independent reviews of audits for an expanded population of small businesses, and reduce ...

Venture capital rout rattles advice technology sector

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 1 MAY 2023
... major banks that are providing advice. That's just not the reality of the advice market. Now, it is a highly fragmented small business market," he said. HoganSprowles, Cipriani and Rouse did not respond to requests for comments.

ATO keeping tabs on SMSF early access, tax avoidance

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 21 APR 2023
... more common where fund members are part of a private wealth group. Nearly half or 45% of SMSFs are operated by small businesses and only 30% of SMSFs are linked to individuals. Currently, there are over 1.1 million members holding an estimated total ...

Search funds beat VC, private equity returns

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  THURSDAY, 20 APR 2023
... Developed by universities Harvard and Stanford in 1984, the search fund model supports entrepreneurs in purchasing a single small business by kicking off a capital-raising process where around $500,000 to $700,000 is initially secured to begin the search ...

RBA steadies cash rate, flags more hikes

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 APR 2023
... breather that will help them adjust to an economic environment of high energy costs and high inflation. "With small businesses confronting an increasingly uncertain global economic outlook, this reinforces the need for a sustainable wage increase for ...

Risk clients, practices worth more: Radar Results

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  TUESDAY, 28 MAR 2023
... 2.2x annualised renewable commission and as high as 2.7x depending on the average client age. Buyers mostly favour businesses that are between 35-55 years old with annual recurring revenue around $500,000 to $700,000, it said. The younger the risk clients ...

It's not 2008, but there's likely more pain ahead: Iggo

CHLOE WALKER  |  TUESDAY, 28 MAR 2023
... creating the risk that more regional banks run into problems," he said. "In turn, this will impact on local economies and small- and medium-sized businesses, thus US recession risks are higher." Amid market turmoil, Iggo favours bonds. "Fixed income ...

Super a big national advantage: Chalmers

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  TUESDAY, 21 MAR 2023
... peak around Christmas," he said. "Interest rate rises are really tightening the screws for a lot of families and small businesses right around the country." He said if you combine that with global uncertainty, it's easy to see why Treasury and the ...

Lending to small businesses increases: Survey

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 20 MAR 2023
... owners borrowing from banks has sharply risen in 2022, a new survey reveals. More than a third (36%) of Australian small businesses canvassed by CPA Australia are increasingly relying on external sources of funding, up from 27% in 2021. Half of Aussie ...