Small Business

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ACCI Stands For:
Policies That Provide Scope For Small Business Entrepreneurship To Flourish

Driving economic growth, employment
& wider benefits to our community

Policy Framework:

Government policies must recognise the need for the different needs and capacities
of smaller enterprises.

Small businesses are not just miniature versions of larger enterprises and not all small
businesses necessarily want to expand. The competitive and entrepreneurial spirit of
small business is the vital underpinning of Australia’s economic future as the level of
growth in larger corporations has steadied, with restructuring more in favour of medium
and smaller enterprises and the exploitation of specialist skills and niche markets.

Small business policy should then be primarily directed at those characteristics of small
businesses which are usually or typically different from medium and large businesses.

Policy Objectives:

  • Comprehensive taxation reform which reduces compliance costs, complexity and uncertainty
    for small business
  • Access to and cost of finance for small business to promote long term growth in the sector
  • Continued deregulation of labour relations while at the same time promoting better
    workplace practices in areas of occupational health and safety
  • Extension of competition policy principles, including competitive neutrality, to ensure
    government business enterprises compete fairly with the private sector
  • Increased take-up of new communications technologies by small business including
    electronic commerce
  • Small business involvement in telecommunications policy development through input of
    research and commercial analysis into government and industry forums
  • Greater access to and increased involvement of small business in government purchasing