Posts Tagged ‘fun’
Super hurdles cleared
An Australian Federal Government superannuation clearing house service will be available for small businesses with less than 20 employees from July, 2010. The free service will be provided through Medicare Australia and is aimed to cut red tape.
To meet their choice of superannuation fund obligations, small businesses face the time and paperwork burden of paying contributions into numerous funds. The clearing house will cut this burden by enabling small businesses to pay their contributions electronically to a single location.
TechVouchers – Tap into leading research and knowledge
TechVouchers is a $1.4 million pilot program that aims to help small to medium-sized NSW businesses tap into the wealth of world leading research and knowledge available through our universities and research organisations.
It also assists in research institutes’ efforts to build partnerships with business, connect research with end users and tap into new avenues of financial support.
The end result is a more innovative NSW industry sector and a stronger, more connected knowledge sector.
TechVouchers will provide two funding streams to support business and research collaboration in NSW:
- TechVouchers will provide up to $15,000 for business to access technical research infrastructure and expertise for building more clever, innovative and efficient practices;
- TechVoucher Connectors will provide financial support for public research organisations to employ ‘connectors’ to better meet the research requirements of industry.
The TechVouchers program was announced by the Minister for Science and Medical Research on 3 September 2009 and is now open for applications.
Internet boost for 50,000 small businesses
More than 50,000 small businesses will benefit from $14 million in Federal Government funding to help them go online or upgrade their internet presence.
The funding is being provided from the Federal Government’s $10 million Small Business Online program which has been boosted by another $4 million to extend it to more tourism small business operators.
Grants ranging from $50,000 to $700,000 have been offered to 47 small business service delivery organisations to date including industry associations.
Visit the AusIndustry Small Business Online website for more details.
The NSW Government’s new smallbiz website (this website) was launched in September 2009.