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As a result of COVID-19, international supply chain issues are now affecting businesses across all industries on a scale not seen in the last 50 years.

In this year’s Federal Budget, the Government has allocated $1 billion to the manufacturing sector to supercharge investment with a focus on seven key areas.

Despite the positive economic outlook, the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic have been far reaching and have had a lasting impression on one of business’s biggest resources – its people.

Australia is sitting on an untapped pot of money, potentially $34 billion, that could be recouped from the shadow or black economy. The Government set up a shadow economy taskforce in 2016, but will this year’s Federal Budget shine a light on the issue again?

New COVID-19 variants remain a risk for all world economies and this uncertainty has the potential to impact business confidence and investment decision-making. This will be weighing on the Australian Government as it fine-tunes the 2022-23 Federal Budget.

Aged care providers are tasked with delivering services to care recipients that exhibit quality and safety attributes. This means that services must have a degree of excellence attached to them and be physically, mentally, emotionally and psychologically safe. In order to achieve this level of quality and safety, the human interactions between carers and care recipients must be kind and attentive, and carers must enjoy the same sense of being safe in all of these dimensions.

Despite facing industry wide challenges, private developers and not-for-profits are attempting to combat the housing affordability crisis. What could the Government do in the Budget to create more affordable housing?

Across all industries and at all levels of employment – from CEOs to backpackers – businesses are looking to this year’s Federal Budget for incentives to make working in Australia more attractive.

As we commence 2022, the outlook for the aged care sector remains as clouded as it was at the beginning of 2021.

In this podcast, we’re joined by Phil Coorey, Political Editor at the Australian Financial Review, and Vince Tropiano, Corporate Tax Partner in our Sydney office to talk about last week’s Federal Budget.

The 2021-22 Budget made a lot of spending announcements, including a number of tax cuts and incentives, and changes to superannuation. From our perspective here are the four key announcements that will have the most fundamental impact on your business.

From 1 July 2022, digital games developers will be able to access a 30% refundable tax offset on qualifying expenditure. While details are still thin, Sukvinder Heyer shares what we know about this game changing announcement so far.