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COVID-19 $10,000 State Government grant for small business
The South Australian State Government has stepped up its assistance offering for small businesses experiencing financial stress as a result of the Coronavirus restrictions, in the form of a $10,000 lifeline for highly impacted employers.
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COVID-19 JobKeeper: Enrolments Now Open
As promised the Australian Tax Office (ATO) has today opened up the formal enrolment process for affected businesses to access JobKeeper. This is not a drill! If you're an employer that meets the eligibility criteria, you must apply for the payment in April to receive it in the first week of May. Further, you must also ensure that all eligible employees have received at least $1,500 per fortnight by the end of this month. That's not a lot of time!
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COVID-19 JobKeeper: More information, uncertainty remains
Ever since the Government announced its flagship 'JobKeeper' response to the Coronavirus crisis, there have been at least as many questions raised by those in business as there have been answers. Up until last week it was a policy without any supporting provisions. The good news is that the legislation governing the new measures made it through Parliament on 8th April. The bad news is that it is little more than a framework that allows for the rules of the scheme to be developed and enforced by the Treasurer and the Australian Taxation Office (ATO), so that means the situation continues to evolve as the rules are developed and released.
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