Posts tagged "JobKeeper"

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.

Qantas, Crown Resorts and Flight Centre claimed more than $1.3 billion in JobKeeper payments between them.

Tax commissioner Chris Jordan has been cleared by a parliamentary committee after a senator claimed he acted with contempt over refusing an order to provide details about businesses receiving JobKeeper.

Australia’s tax commissioner Chris Jordan is facing an inquiry into whether he disobeyed the Senate after not following through on an order to provide details about businesses receiving JobKeeper.

Treasury says clawing back billions worth of JobKeeper payments would have “muted the recovery” from COVID-19.

That $110 million is the absolute minimum — including direct investment by foreign investors would dramatically increase that level of offshore transfers by taxpayers.

People are worn out and looking for someone to blame. And in the past month, there have been plenty of reasons to blame the rich.

A Perth small business owner and SmartCompany reader shares her experience with JobKeeper, in light of growing calls for businesses to pay back the wage subsidies if their revenue increased during 2020. 

Donna Bates argues that businesses which were propped up by JobKeeper have a moral and ethical duty to repay that taxpayer money.

Victoria’s peak tourism body is calling on the government for more business support as the national visitor economy is in a state of crisis amid Sydney and Melbourne’s ongoing lockdowns.

Josh Frydenberg says any so-called ‘clawback’ provision would have put businesses off from applying in the first place. But does it matter?

"The Labor Party and Senator Patrick in particular (among others) need to remember that political point scoring comes at the expense of others," writes Peter Strong.