Wednesday 10 April 2013

Has the Australian small business community stopped listening to Opposition Leader Tony Abbott's doom and gloom?

 
It would seem that by the first quarter of 2013 Opposition Leader Tony Abbott’s scare tactics may have ceased cutting though when it comes to how people starting new businesses see the economy and their chance of success as they are still registering in high numbers.
 
These are the active Australian Business Numbers in 2013, of which 3,557,412 are individual/sole traders, 1,354,105 are private companies and 513,116 are family partnerships:
 
 
Here are the number of new business numbers registered so far this year, of which 74,574 are individual/sole traders, 24,596 are private companies and 3,578 are family partnerships:  
 
 
This is the number which also registered for the Goods & Services Tax for the first time:
 

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