Small business owners and miners push for tax cuts ahead of 2025 election

Call for small business tax cuts to help transporters - Fully Loaded

Image: KM.Photo/stock.adobe.comWith 98 per cent of the road transport sector made up of small businesses, any promises to alter the landscape of the small business sector has a real and telling impact on an industry already operating on marginal gains. The Council of Small Business Organisations Australia (COSBOA) has launched a campaign in the lead-up the federal election that, it hopes, will help ease the pressures for small businesses around …

Small business owners and miners push for tax cuts ahead of 2025 election

Small business leaders across Australia, representing the country’s 2.6 million small business owners, have launched a targeted campaign urging Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Opposition Leader Peter Dutton to reduce company taxes. The push focuses on a tax cut for businesses with annual turnovers of under $20 million, aiming to alleviate financial strain and prevent further closures. The Council of Small Business Organisations Australia (CO…

Why small businesses are still waiting for meaningful tax reform

Last week, Labor handed down the 2025-26 Budget, the Coalition delivered its reply, and neither party presented the tax reforms that small-business owners desperately wanted – and needed. Small-business owners and advocacy groups have been calling for meaningful tax reform. They’ve been asking for measures like targeted tax incentives and relief, a rightsized GST system and the overhaul or removal of payroll tax. But the tax changes unveiled las…

COSBOA calls for tax cut and fair go for small business

COSBOA is calling on policymakers to cut the small business company tax rate & provide instant relief to the struggling small business sector.