July 2016 News
When the Australian dollar rises, business operating conditions tend to deteriorate. Conversely, as the Australian dollar falls, conditions [...]
Australia’s Digital economy set to grow to $139 billion (Or 7 percent of GDP) by 2020
The Digital economy of Australia is set to grow to $139 billion by 2020 according to a new report by [...]
Understanding Labor’s Negative Gearing policy
Negative Gearing It simply means borrowing money to buy an asset such as an investment property, in other words taking [...]
Combating multinational tax avoidance – a targeted anti-avoidance law
The Multinational Anti-Avoidance Law (MAAL) has been enacted as part of the government's efforts to combat tax avoidance by multinational [...]
A Free Trade Agreement between Australia and China
Australia is hoping to build a free trade agreement (FTA) with China. The FTA came into effect in December, cutting [...]
Super Funds Could Tap into the Indian market in a big way
Huge investment opportunities in India awaits Australia's $2 trillion superannuation industry according to Arun Jaitley, the Finance Minister of India [...]
Government introduces tax incentives to boost growth and jobs
The bill that focuses on "changing tax laws for start-ups was introduced on March 16, 2016. The bill introduced by [...]
Accelerating Business Activities Are Hinting Improving Activity Levels in the Australian Economy
The latest release by the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) suggests that new lending to the private sector accelerated modestly. [...]
Signs of Gold Coast Property market is heating up
Queensland’s Valuer General has recently released annual valuations for more than 141,000 properties in the city, showing land values on [...]
Australia introduces bill to extend GST to B2C cross – border supplies of digital products and services
The Australian Goods and Services Tax (GST) landscape for cross-border transactions is due for a radical change with the introduction [...]