PC blames managers for missed tech opportunities
The Productivity Commission has blamed sub-par management, a lack of ambition and family run businesses for missing tech-related opportunities.
The Productivity Commission has blamed sub-par management, a lack of ambition and family run businesses for missing tech-related opportunities.
New rules on backpacker employment will allow the unions to easily single out farmers who employ overseas holiday workers.
The Parliamentary Budget Office has issued a warning that Australia's political system is struggling to get the budget back to balance.
The mining industry has evoked the memory of campaigns against Labor's mining and carbon taxes in a bid to kill off support for a $5-a-tonne levy on BHP and Rio Tinto in WA.
Dividend imputation is hurting Australia's efforts to create more national champions in business and should be offered up as a bargaining chip to pay for company tax cuts, business leaders say.
Proposed changes to R&D; rules would wipe out Dulux's tax credit, it says.
A million dollar property in Canberra now carries an annual rates bill of $3000, up from $2200 a couple of years ago.
When Australia's company tax rate was cut to 30 per cent in 2001 it was at the low end of global comparisons
We can't grow without investment. But our present company tax policies just scare global capital away.
BHP's chief says he gets a better reception in socialist Chile than Australia when talking taxes.
Former Treasurer Peter Costello has given a withering review of the BCA's plan to cut company income tax.
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