News Bulletin 1 October 2010

Sky News interview: Coping with staff turnover

Michael Derin talks with Sky News about why high staff turnover is detrimental to small businesses, why it's important to retain key staff members and strategies to go about this.

Tax update: ATO data matching to a new level

The Australian Tax Office (ATO) has announced that it will ask state and territory authorities for data that will allow it to scrutinise every property sold in the last 11 years for any unpaid capital gains tax, income tax and GST.

New R&D Tax Credit introduced with a more generous incentive for SMEs

The Government has introduced the R&D Tax Credit to replace the existing R&D Tax Concession with a more certain, more generous research and development incentive for business, particularly SMEs.

Azure Group in the media: Survey aims to highlight SMEs' need for targeted services

Michael Derin discusses with The Australian Financial Review the results from our latest Business Benchmarking survey, why small businesses are in need of good financial management and also general market conditions.