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Research on the OneBookPlus blog: original research and data on Australian small business. 7 posts in this category.
The Dead Register
Australia has 20,495,750 ABN records but only about 2.8 million trading businesses. Every one of the 11,550,322 cancelled ABNs still passes the ATO checksum.
The 91-Cent Gap
The ATO will pay you 91 cents a business kilometre in 2026-27, capped at 5,000 km. That is $4,550. One car in a typical Australian household costs $11,651 a year to run, and $13,666 in Sydney. A research report on the gap, with per-city data for 15 locations.
Australia's Payroll Tax Cliff
Pay $1.5 million in wages and you owe $31,731 in payroll tax in Western Australia and nothing in South Australia, the NT or the ACT. Every threshold, rate and trap across all eight Australian jurisdictions for 2026-27.
The Fuel Excise Snap-Back 2026
Fuel excise returns to 53.7 cents a litre on 3 August 2026. The rise lands on three tiers of business vehicle in three different ways, and the tier that absorbs all of it is the ute and van under 4.5 tonnes that most Australian small businesses drive.
The Card Surcharge Ban 2026: What It Really Costs (and Saves) Australian Small Business
From 1 October 2026 you cannot surcharge eftpos, Mastercard or Visa. What the RBA reform costs and saves you, modelled by business type.
The Australian Small Business Cash Flow & Late Payments Report 2026
In the March quarter 2026, Australian small businesses waited an average of 24.1 days to be paid and were paid 6.9 days late (Xero Small Business Insights). This fully-sourced report aggregates the latest getting-paid, cash-flow, insolvency and payments-reform figures from Xero, the Payment Times Reporting Regulator, the RBA, ASBFEO, the ABS, CommBank-UNSW and CreditorWatch into one extractable resource.
The True Cost of Running Software for an Australian Small Business in 2026
A data-led analysis of what Australian small businesses actually pay for software in 2026, based on verified pricing from Xero, MYOB, ServiceM8, Stripe, Cliniko, Shopify and 30+ other platforms, cross-checked with ABS, ASBFEO, RBA and Xero Small Business Insights data.