Blocklines : “”Too little, too late”. Bruce Wicks, managing director, “”in other words owner” of Capsella Pty Ltd, which runs the Battery Factory outside his Fyshwick business with some of his 20 staff yesterday.
Mr Wicks, who also runs the Radiator Works and Dobel Boat Hire on Lake Burley Griffin, was not impressed with Mr Keating’s statement.
“”It’s too late now _ small and medium and medium business has been treated with contempt for too long,” he said. “”It’s an effort to buy the business vote _ just like the Government buys the vote with welfare handouts. We need a change in government philosophies, not just simply more hand-outs.
“”It will also mean more government intervention in small business because the government will monitor what we are doing. We have a distinct lack of trust in government interference.”
Mr Wicks thought the GST ought to be given a go, even if it would initially affect business.
“”I’d prefer to pay tax when I spend than when I earn,” he said. “”With Labor we have seen so many impositions on small business that we need a fundamental revision of the whole tax structure.”