Tasmania's 36,000 small businesses and their 110,000 employees are expected to be more efficient with a $6.4 million investment to reduce red tape.
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Federal Treasurer Josh Frydenberg announced the funding in Launceston on Monday, which is part of the $300 million Small Business Regulatory Reform Agenda.
"Tasmania is such a success story for the Australian economy. Economic growth is running in the state of Tasmania at 3.3 per cent - the fastest in a decade," Mr Frydenberg said.
"A key part of the success of Tasmania has been the small business sector."
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Acting Premier Jeremy Rockliff said the funding would be used to create a one-stop planning and building portal for hospitality and tourism businesses to apply for multiple permits, bushfire risk online mapping, access to water and sewerage spatial data and automatic building licence verification.
"Small business is the engine room of our economy, employing tens of thousands of Tasmanians in our cities and our regions," he said.
"Over the next three years we will use this funding to deliver on four priority regulatory reforms."
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