The Minister for Innovation announced the membership of the new Food Processing Industry Strategy Group today. This group will play an important role in ensuring Australia’s food sector is productive, sustainable and ready…
From 1 July 2011, the Tax Breaks for Green Buildings scheme will offer businesses that invest in eligible assets or capital works to improve the energy efficiency of their existing buildings –…
Obtaining grants is a highly specialised field, and there are many stages to writing a grant proposal, such as identifying the need, designing the project, determining the grant opportunities, writing the grant…
David Thomas of Think Global Consulting has just returned from leading a successful delegation to the Asian Financial Forum in Hong Kong. His tips for doing business in Asia are: See the…
From 1 January 2011 the new Federal Government scheme took effect. It allows an eligible working parent who is the primary carer of a child born or adopted from 1 January 2011…
The NSW State Government announced today the following: Full details of these changes are available at www.osr.nsw.gov.au
AusIndustry has introduced a new compliance review framework based on the concept of a ‘compliance continuum’ for R&D Tax Claims. The new framework plans to sample around 15% of all R&D Tax applications received each year,…
The Government has today announced that clean-up and recovery grants of up to $25,000, paid to primary producers and small businesses directly affected by the recent flooding that has occurred since 29…
Tax breaks for redevelopments that will substantially improve the energy efficiency of existing buildings are the subject of a new public consultation paper released today by Assistant Treasurer Bill Shorten and Parliamentary…
The Assistant Treasurer Bill Shorten today announced amendments to Australia’s tax laws to allow taxpayers to self assess indirect taxes such as the GST and wine equalisation tax (WET). The Government is currently…