Business groups have hit out at the Government’s back flip on promised company tax cuts in last night’s budget. The Government dumped its…
Business groups have hit out at the Government’s back flip on promised company tax cuts in last night’s budget. The Government dumped its…
With such a cut-and-dry approach to this year’s budget, it’s fairly easy to sort the winners from the losers. We look at who will …
Federal Shadow Treasurer Joe Hockey has branded the 2012 budget “confused”, claiming it fails to provide measures to aid economic growth…
Business and industry groups have welcomed the Federal Budget’s return to surplus but have questioned Treasurer Wayne Swan’s long-term v…
Federal Treasurer Wayne Swan has come under fire for not providing investors with any sort of budget incentive to put their money into promi…
The business community can rightly feel that is has been sacrificed at the altar of Wayne Swan’s surplus, with the Government’s decision…
The federal budget attempts to be a Robin Hood budget, taking from the rich and giving to the poor, but like the classic tale it might be th…
For two years our Treasurer has swanned around the country, claiming his was the new party for small and medium business. Central to this…
Treasurer Wayne Swan has revealed that the Federal Government’s loss carry-back scheme for business will cost $714 million, but he is yet to…
A plan to offer tax breaks for the construction of green buildings has been dumped, with Climate Change Minister Greg Combet declaring the p…
We were promised a Labor budget and we got one, at least Labor in its modern sense of a managerialist party that still faintly remembers the…
The Government used tonight’s Budget to abolish the proposed standard deduction for work-related expenses, saving over $2 billion and making…