Performance Benchmarking of Australian Business Regulation: Cost of Business Registrations
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The research report Performance Benchmarking of Australian Business Regulation: Cost of Business Registrations was released on 12 December 2008.
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- Quantity and Quality research report - also released on 12 December 2008
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- Preliminaries (PDF - 193 Kb)
Cover, Copyright, Opportunity for further comment, Terms of reference, Contents and Abbreviations - Overview - including key points (PDF - 101 Kb)
- 1 Background (PDF - 92 Kb)
1.1 Origins of this study
1.2 Purpose and scope of the study
1.3 Conduct of the study
1.4 The Commission's approach - 2 Business registration in Australia (PDF - 77 Kb)
2.1 Purpose of business registration
2.2 Australian system of business registration
2.3 New business registrations in Australia
2.4 Business registration processes - 3 Generic business registrations: Australian Government (PDF - 76 Kb)
3.1 Registering a company (incorporation)
3.2 Tax-related business registrations - 4 Generic business registrations: state and territory governments (PDF - 103 Kb)
4.1 Registering a business name
4.2 Registering for payroll tax - 5 Industry-specific business registrations (PDF - 167 Kb)
5.1 Registering a café with outdoor dining
5.2 Registering a domestic builder
5.3 Registering a long day care centre (child care)
5.4 Registering a real estate agency
5.5 Registering a winery - 6 Choice of indicators of business registration compliance cost (PDF - 96 Kb)
6.1 The costs of registering a business
6.2 Data sources and reliability - 7 Cost of generic Australian Government registrations (PDF - 80 Kb)
7.1 Registering a company (incorporation)
7.2 Tax related business registrations
7.3 Benchmarking Australian Government registrations - 8 Cost of generic state and territory government registrations (PDF - 115 Kb)
8.1 Registering a business name
8.2 Registering for payroll tax - 9 Cost of registering a café with outdoor dining (PDF - 145 Kb)
9.1 Registering a food business
9.2 Registering outdoor dining facilities - 10 Cost of registering a domestic builder (PDF - 106 Kb)
- 11 Cost of registering a long day care centre (child care) (PDF - 103 Kb)
11.1 Registering a long day care centre
11.2 Registering as Child Care Benefit approved service provider - 12 Cost of registering a real estate agency (PDF - 122 Kb)
- 13 Cost of registering a winery (PDF - 109 Kb)
13.1 Obtaining a liquor licence
13.2 Registering for the Wine Equalisation Tax (WET) - 14 Conclusions (PDF - 105 Kb)
14.1 Approach to estimating compliance costs for business registrations
14.2 Generic registration comparisons
14.3 Industry-specific registration comparisons
14.4 Difficulty with, and duplication of, registrations
14.5 Lessons for future benchmarking - 15 Comments from jurisdictions (PDF - 88 Kb)
- Appendix A Conduct of the benchmarking study (PDF - 79 Kb)
- Appendix B Approach to sourcing data (PDF - 91 Kb)
- References (PDF - 70 Kb)
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