Alan Clayton

by BY ALAN CLAYTON, COMMITTEE MEMBER 9th Apr 2019 4:00 AM premium_icon Subscriber only BUSINESSES in NSW are currently required to pay payroll tax to the Office of State Revenue at a rate of 5.45 per cent on any wages paid over the annual threshold of $850,000 in a financial year. Payroll taxes are higher in NSW than they are in both Queensland and Victoria, and this disparity places NSW businesses at a competitive disadvantage and creates an impediment to employment.

There are solid policy arguments in support of Los Angeles County having an elected executive and two more members for the Board of Supervisors, as called for by a proposal making its way through the state Legislature this summer in the form of Senate Constitutional Amendment 12. Currently, we have five county supervisors who have both legislative and executive power. They run Los Angeles County. They represent different geographical areas of our huge county, all with different issues.

What Gets Measured Gets Done What does the geckoboard on your startup’s co-working wall space measure? Lots of numbers? Numbers that mean something to you personally? Are there numbers missing? Do you like the “how do my customers feel today” score? Since the landmark Balanced Scorecard was introduced to CEOs in the late ‘90s, more holistic sets of metrics, crucially including both lead and lag indicators, have become the norm for captains steering their startup ships.