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While businesses hope to win a cut in the corporate tax rate at the government’s economic roundtable, many firms just want the tax system simplified.

Want a slice of GST with your tiramisu? Businesses press for simpler tax

While big businesses are pressing the federal government for lower taxes, they also want an answer – do I pay GST on my chocolate-flavoured yoghurt?

  • Shane Wright

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Aldi’s most highly coveted items won’t be found on DoorDash.

In stores only: The high-demand Aldi items you can’t buy on DoorDash

Australians can finally order Aldi groceries online – but most will still have to wait a few months, and not every item is on the app.

  • Jessica Yun

Aldi drops its own price bomb in supermarkets’ targeted price attacks

Supermarkets want to help customers ease cost of living stress, but selective price cuts have more to do with luring large-trolley shoppers.

  • Elizabeth Knight
Jackie and Brendan Schroeder, owners of the Sims IGA in West Footscray.

A beloved grocery has sold fruit and veg for nearly 100 years. Now Woolies has come knocking

An “absolute institution” could prove no match for the supermarket giant planning to set up shop next door.

  • Sophie Aubrey
Shoppers will be hoping for a battle that will deliver bigger and broader discounts.

Your next shop will be a lot cheaper as big supermarkets go to war

Customers will be hoping a battle ensues that produces bigger and broader discounts, not just a contest for collectible toys.

  • Elizabeth Knight
Big W - Big losses

Kmart is beating up Big W and giving Woolies a major headache

Big W, owned by Woolworths, is losing a lot of money as its range of toys, beauty products and homewares fails to click with shoppers.

  • Elizabeth Knight
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Woolworths sales fall behind Coles as price battle rages

Australia’s two biggest supermarkets are in a battle to lower prices in the cost-of-living crisis and win back the trust and dollars of customers.

  • Jessica Yun
An anti-Woolworths development demonstrator confronts a YIMBY heckler at a community rally in Elsternwick.

Elsternwick erupts: NIMBYs v YIMBYs as VCAT bypass fuels local fury

Woolworths has sought to overturn a VCAT judgment and applied to Victoria’s planning minister to approve a 148-apartment housing proposal in Elsternwick.

  • Adam Carey
Woolworths, Coles, Aldi and Metcash (IGA) are under pressure to lower grocery prices by the government.

There’s no proof big supermarkets are price gouging, but Labor will ban it anyway

Labor would target supermarkets price gouging customers but has stopped short of Peter Dutton’s populist plan to give regulators power to break up big chains.

  • Millie Muroi and James Massola
The ACCC found the price of food, including cheese, milk and eggs, had increased far more than wages since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Checkout pain: Australia’s supermarkets among most profitable in the world

Shoppers’ complaints that they are being burnt at the nation’s checkouts has been vindicated by a damning report by the consumer watchdog.

  • Shane Wright, Jessica Yun and Millie Muroi

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