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据《自然》杂志的有关报道,由约翰·霍华德总理领导的澳大利亚新保守党联合党政府已将鼓励科研的减免税资助从每年7.9亿澳元减为3.41亿澳元。但是主要的政府研究计划看来却没受到这次希望明年将国家财政赤字减少40亿澳元的紧缩预算行动的很大影响。 随着预算的削减,政府已于上月终止了另一项旨在促进工业研究的“辛迪加”计划,这项计划允许集中进行大量研究开发投资可获得减税优惠。终止该项计划可使政府每年节省大约2.25亿澳元。另外政府资助大学的经费也被削减了5%。 财政部长彼得·科斯特纳希望能依靠企业提高信心与增加投资来刺激经济,同时将对削减工业研究资助可能带来的后果进行密切观察。前劳动工党政府曾采取税收优惠政策来促进提高澳大利亚的革新精神和竞争力。这一政策实行十年来,公司用于研究的经费已从低起点上有了大幅度的提高。
According to the “Nature” magazine's report, the coalition government of Australia's new Conservative Party, led by Prime Minister John Howard, has reduced the tax relief for research funding from A $ 790 million to A $ 341 million a year. But major government research programs appear to have been largely unaffected by the austerity budget this year that hopes to cut the state budget deficit by A $ 4 billion. Last month, the government terminated another “syndicate” program aimed at promoting industrial research as the budget cut, which allowed tax concessions to be concentrated on a large number of R & D investments. Termination of the program will save the government about $ 225 million annually. In addition, government-funded universities have also been cut by 5%. Finance Minister Peter Costner hopes to rely on businesses to boost confidence and increase investment to stimulate the economy, while closely monitoring the possible consequences of cutting funding for industrial research. Former Labor Party government has adopted preferential tax policies to promote Australia's innovation and competitiveness. In the ten years since the policy was implemented, the company's funds for research have risen sharply from a low starting point.