Federal Budget 2022

We chatted to some Aussie startup founders to find out what they wanted to see in Labor's federal budget.

CPA Australia's Gavan Ord details five spoilers he's expecting to see on budget night.

The Albanese government has announced that $50.5 million of the federal budget will be allocated to a new national critical minerals strategy to help bolster Australia's clean energy production.

Restaurant owners want next week's federal budget to address staff availability and the punishing cost of doing business, six months after pledges in the last budget left one small trader feeling like a "tool" in an election campaign.

Half of small business owners and key decision-makers see tax reform as a priority in the budget, joining industry groups calling for significant changes to the taxation system.

Treasurer Jim Chalmers says the expected 10-year cost of the tax reforms has blown out, but said next week's federal budget is not the place to address those concerns.

The federal government will commit nearly $15 million in funding to mental health support and debt counselling for small business owners in the upcoming federal budget.

COSBOA is pushing for new government spending on SME skills training and resilience measures while softening its language on multi-employer bargaining.

If productivity is Australia's goal, making sure every business is a digital business needs to be a major priority, writes MYOB's Helen Lea.

Tradies, hairdressers, nurses and politicians could miss out on a tax break if the federal government backflips on, or rethinks, the scheduled Stage 3 tax cuts, as the Treasurer flags "difficult decisions" must be made in this month's federal budget in light of a looming global recession.

The federal government may be promising a ‘bread and butter’ budget when Treasurer Jim Chalmers delivers his economic blueprint in late …

Next month’s budget will include $10.8 million to fund the inquiry, with government sources emphasising the probe would be very rigorous and operators would be put on the spot to explain high fees.