VICTORIA HAS ANNOUNCED $3 BILLION IN SMALL BUSINESS SUPPORT AMID COVID-19
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* Cash grants of up to $30,000 per business
* Payroll tax deferrals for 2020/21
* Digital training and set-up support
* Fee waivers including for liquor licences, congestion levies and landfill levies
* Marketing and advertising support for small producers
* Logistics and supply chain spending for exporters
* Stamp duty discounts for commercial and industrial regional properties
* Vacant residential land tax waived for 2020
* "We will get these payments made as fast as we possibly can" - Premier Daniel Andrews
* "Businesses don't want welfare, they just want the opportunity to safely reopen with a COVID plan - that's what they should be given" - Opposition Leader Michael O'Brien
* "The best thing the government can do is to remove the impossible targets it has set for restriction easing and work to get the border open with NSW" - Australian Industry Group boss Tim Piper
NOTE: Most measures apply to businesses with annual payrolls of up to $10 million
Australian Associated Press