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Small Business Owners: Don’t Overlook Your New Compliance Requirements!
Small business has limited resources and optimising these resources is a balancing act. Part of this balancing act includes the role of...
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May 30, 20192 min read
Your Tax Deadlines for July 2019 and Good News for Taxpayers
Firstly, there are no major deadlines in June but tax season opens in July, so make sure you have all your documentation ready for your...
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May 30, 20192 min read
Small Businesses: Make The Most of Your Tax Breaks!
“There are two systems of taxation in our country: one for the informed and one for the uninformed.” (U.S. Judge Learned Hand) Whether...
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Apr 30, 20193 min read
Quick Wins to Get Our Economy Going Again
“I approach every problem with optimism” (Nelson Mandela) The mood of optimism that pervaded a year ago is rapidly fading – the Business...
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Apr 30, 20192 min read
Employers – Need Reducing Staff Conflict With Employee Rights?
The Companies Act gives directors wide powers to manage the organisation – the Act states “The business and affairs of a company must be...
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Apr 30, 20192 min read
Tax and Solar Energy Plants: Your Business Can Deduct the Costs Upfront
“If only there was some kind of an infinite power source that was free to use all day every day…” (Anon) In a recent binding ruling, SARS...
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Apr 30, 20191 min read
SARS – Important Update on VAT for E-Services from Foreign Suppliers
This has been causing waves since SARS stated its intentions of making electronic services subject to VAT last year. Now the final...
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Apr 30, 20192 min read
Your Tax and Other Deadlines for May 2019
Your Employer Annual Reconciliation Declaration (EMP501) for the period 1 March 2018 to 28 February 2019 is due on or before 31 May. This...
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Apr 30, 20191 min read
Expat Tax: How Will The Changes Affect You?
“A fine is a tax for doing wrong. A tax is a fine for doing well.” (Ecard humour) (Note: If you aren’t yourself an expatriate, please...
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Mar 27, 20193 min read
Companies: Don’t Inadvertently Encourage Unethical Behaviour
“So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work” (Peter Drucker) In a recent interview of a...
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Mar 27, 20193 min read
The CIPC Is Taking On Wrongdoing by Directors – A R4.3bn Example
The Companies and Intellectual Property Commission (CIPC) has often been viewed as just an administrator and recorder of decisions made...
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Mar 27, 20192 min read
Sugar Tax: Good for the Taxman, Bad for the Sugar Industry
“If governments tax products like sugary drinks, they can reduce suffering and save lives. They can also cut healthcare costs and...
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Mar 27, 20192 min read
What Our New Tax Statistics Tell Us
There are only run-of-the-mill tax deadlines in April, but some interesting information emerged from the recently-released 2018 edition...
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Mar 27, 20191 min read
What does Budget 2019 mean for you?
The following proposed tax changes were announced Income tax rates are left unchanged. The primary rebate was marginally increased but...
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Feb 27, 20192 min read
Your Selection of Budget 2019 Tax Calculators
“People who complain about taxes can be divided into two classes: men and women” (Anon) How long will you work for the taxman today?...
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Feb 27, 20191 min read
Budget 2019: Credibility Restored?
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them...
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Feb 27, 20194 min read
How to Improve Risk Management in Your Business
Risk management has become increasingly popular in the past twenty years. It is also a corner stone of good governance. Despite this...
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Feb 27, 20192 min read
VAT Taxpayers: New Relief on Correcting Tax Invoices
There has been an anomaly in VAT law which new legislation has now largely resolved. The problem with the old position It has always been...
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Feb 27, 20192 min read
SARS Warns Taxpayers: “Use Only Registered Tax Practitioners”
There are no major tax deadlines for March but SARS is again warning taxpayers to – Only use registered Tax Practitioners, Ask for the...
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Feb 27, 20191 min read
AI and the Changing Face of Jobs: Good News If We React Now
“Artificial Intelligence is a tool, not a threat” (Rodney Brooks, Roboticist) There has been fear that the rise of Artificial...
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Jan 31, 20192 min read
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