The Northern Territory government digs deeper into its coffers to offer support for businesses hit hard by coronavirus as cases peak across the territory.
Chief Minister Michael Gunner said the assistance would be available to businesses that can demonstrate a 40 per cent reduction in turnover in December 2021 or January 2022 compared to the same period two years earlier.
Businesses have also been promised a 30 per cent cut to their utility bills and a waiver of their payroll tax for the first three months of the year. He said after performing well at the end of 2020, his outlet had gone on to suffer as customers were driven indoors amid high levels of coronavirus transmission in the community."Same with us as well — this is the worst I've seen in the last three years."
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