Posts tagged "treasurer"

After giving just 52 days’ notice, ASIC licences for Australia’s small proxy advisory firms were cancelled on Monday by Josh Frydenberg, writes Stephen Mayne.

Treasurer Josh Frydenberg appears to have thrown the most important findings of the banking royal commission under a bus.

The latest intergenerational report shows Australia will be smaller and older than previously expected in 40 years time, in what is the first downward revision of official projections for 20 years.

When JobKeeper ended at the end of March, it looked like a mere blip in employment. But that doesn’t mean there hasn’t been damage.

Tax office data has been used to calculate ways that would give a standard deduction to everyone who wants it (and others more, up to a cap) without increasing the total paid out.

Former New South Wales premier Mike Baird has been appointed to chair the federal government’s Business Growth Fund.

Treasurer Frydenberg has asked the ACCC to do another inquiry into the banks' pricing practices, and there are four questions it ought to be asking.

The ACCC has been directed to launch a mortgage pricing inquiry that will examine barriers for consumers looking to ditch the big banks.

The big banks are copping a hiding from the Treasurer this morning and small businesses, seeing an opportunity, are cashing in.

Assistant Treasurer Michael Sukkar wants the ATO to be more engaged with accountants and have less, but more positive, interaction with small business.

Asked now to pat its belly while rubbing its head by administering the tax offset alongside STP, the tax office is still untying its hands.

Last week was a big week for the startup ecosystem, and the country as a whole, as the Turnbull government delivered its first budget.

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