Taxs = death by thousand cuts is worse than being starved by neglect
On Dec 16, 12:33 pm, David Lyon david.lyon.preissh...@gmail.com
wrote:
So what should be the role of govt?
Tax everything then increase the said taxes.
David if you are arguing that tax policy should favor innovation I'd
Hi Lawrence,
David if you are arguing that tax policy should favor innovation I'd
have to challenge you to come up with some hard examples.
I'm not.
All I was saying was that in other devoped countries, with the UK
being the easiest example, Government legalised illegal operations
and then
Cormac is repeating what many expert innovation specialists have known
for years Territory = Talent + Technology + Tolerance
But bringing the discussion back to govt intervention, my principle
objection is that govt whilst being well-meaning (eg NatBroadBan) are
actually in the politically
Hi.
As I am an Irishman living in Ireland, with a self-declared interest
in the innovation culture in Australia (see a previous post), I
thought I’d give some insight into what you might learn from us.
Firstly, creating a “valley” or innovation ecosystem takes TIME. It’s
not something that can
Hi Cormac,
Well you are totally right on most points. But the sense of failure
doesn't exist within Australians in the business sector or ordinary
life.
In Australia, we get lots of successes - even in business.
The big problem we face is that our governments, (perhaps
QLD, VIC and WA being
On Dec 5, 9:12 pm, Paul Wallbank paulwallb...@gmail.com wrote:
Sadly I think getting sensible, sustainable development policies into
Sydney are about as likely as negative gearing being abolished.
Since I'm a Kiwi, I'd point out that the NZ incubator model for
comparison
Actually, the Australian Government aren't stupid.
In around 2000 they had $800 million marked for local investment in
tech companies.
What happened was that they couldn't find a way to allocate it. So the
funds were moved to Singapore. They are being used there - perpahps
to this day.
Actually
Michael, I totally agree with everything you say but those are much
bigger development issues.
Sadly I think getting sensible, sustainable development policies into
Sydney are about as likely as negative gearing being abolished.
Aussie developers want 15 storey buildings with lots of investor
+1 Elias
That's the point. Yes they might fail. Who cares. In the process we
might get some sort of tech hub going. What was the side effect to
ireland ? well lets go back a bit. Before the moves, ireland was
poor. quite poor. You did uni, got a green card thanks to clinton
and the
On 04/12/2010, at 10:35 AM, Elias Bizannes elias.bizan...@gmail.com wrote:
I never said Google moved for the tax breaks; I used that example to
point out the impact their presence has had on the Sydney startup
scene.
The fact a lot of companies are using Singapore as their regional
I may be missing something but don't we already have lots of tech
multinationals in Australia who employees tens (if not hundreds) of thousands
people?
And while Ireland and Singapore have been mentioned as models to follow, no one
has mentioned any Irish or Singaporean start-ups that have
Has something changed with Google's tax situation? I keep seeing these
references to Google (amongst others, including Facebook) being more
or less attracted by tax breaks here in Australia. As of not too long
ago, they barely paid any tax here:
google didn't need excessive government tax breaks
I never said Google moved for the tax breaks; I used that example to
point out the impact their presence has had on the Sydney startup
scene.
The fact a lot of companies are using Singapore as their regional
headquarters is the real measure of our competitiveness to attract
these companies, of
I'll just jump in here with my experience of governments attracting
multinational corporations in with tax benefits: It largely doesn't
work.
A good example is the Australian film industry where hundred of
million, if not billions, has been wasted by state and Federal
governments attracting over
I think you've hit the nail on the head.
Having worked for 2 multinational tech companies, Australia is seen as
small-to-medium, mature market whose main asset is its relative closeness to
the high growth Asia region and its cultural similarity to the US. Tax is a
minor issue compared to the
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