Starting your business checklist

Are you new to business? To help you get started, the Australian Government has developed a Starting your business checklist covering many of the basic issues you need to consider.

The checklist contains a series of questions to guide you through the various stages of your business including before you start, when you start, when you buy and when you run your business.

The checklist will be updated on a regular basis, please check that you have the latest version.

Latest version

Version 1.5 is now available incorporating agency and content changes.

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• Starting your business checklist V1.5 (PDF, 0.45MB)- Requires Adobe Reader version 5 or above.
• Starting your business checklist V1.5 (RTF, 1.07MB)
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