Matthew Elmas

Baptist World Aid's annual ethical fashion report has named and shamed the likes of Showpo and P.E. Nation, commending others including Cotton On.

Empty shelves at Coles and Woolworths has been an opportunity for up-and-coming small businesses in the pet-food industry.

A worker who was fired for alleged embezzlement has won an appeal and will receive $40,000 in compensation from her former employer.

After five months of waiting, Treasurer Josh Frydenberg has appointed Karen Payne as the new inspector-general of taxation.

Napoleon Perdis has been saved and will test the waters internationally next year after a restructure in the coming months.

ASIC says new product intervention powers which cover Afterpay and Zip Co will allow it to ensure better outcomes for consumers.

Some of Australia's largest businesses are failing to pay small businesses on time, despite promising to improve payment terms.

Labor leader Bill Shorten has appealed to the tills of small business in his budget reply, asking them to back sensible increases in wages.

The tax watchdog has called on the ATO to introduce a compensation scheme for tax agents disadvantaged by system outages in a recent report.

Measures to extend and enhance the instant asset write-off have passed the Senate in a post-budget voting blitz that saw 28 bills passed yesterday.

Small businesses have welcomed the coalition's tax relief pitch, but startups say the federal budget lacked support for innovation.

The government has proposed expanding the STP reporting regime to enable more data to be collected for use by the tax office.