“The secret to getting ahead is getting started.” (Mark Twain) To avoid the last-minute rush, the risk of errors and omissions, and the cost of late submissions, penalties and audits, there is no better time to get ahead on your company and individual tax returns than the day the 2021 tax season opens. What applies […]
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Jun
Jun
“Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there” (Will Rogers) In the hostile business environment in which we find ourselves, every small advantage could be the difference between success and failure. While traditionally companies and their shareholders have looked at profit and the cold hard numbers […]
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Jun
Jun
“All forms of rental income must be declared to SARS … We are … determined to make it hard and costly for non-compliant taxpayers not willing to meet their obligations. We are working hard to improve system capabilities, in order to detect those taxpayers who do not comply by using data to identify risk” (extracts […]
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Jun
Jun
1 July – Start of Filing Season 2021 for Individuals (Non-Provisional) 1 July – Start of Filing Season 2021 for Individuals (Provisional) & Trusts 7 July – Monthly Pay-As-You-Earn (PAYE) submissions and payments 23 July – Value-Added Tax (VAT) manual submissions and payments 29 July – Excise Duty payments 30 July – Corporate Income Tax […]
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May
May
The future of money is digital currency” (Bill Gates, Co-founder of Microsoft) Note: The risks and consequences of willfully or negligently failing to make full and true declarations to SARS, or to submit documents or information requested by SARS are now substantial, so ask your accountant for advice specific to your circumstances! Cryptocurrencies have been […]
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May
May
“If [business is] not listening to the youth, they are not listening to their future competitors, employees, or customers” (Wadia Ait Hamza, head of Global Shapers at the World Economic Forum) Youth Day commemorates and celebrates the impact the youth of a country can have on the future – the Soweto Uprising on 16 June […]
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May
May
“Digital is the main reason just over half of the companies on the Fortune 500 have disappeared since the year 2000” (CEO of Accenture, Pierre Nanterme) With the increased buzz around 4IR (the Fourth Industrial Revolution) in the last year particularly, due to lockdowns and “isolated industrialization”, it’s befitting to zoom-in the lens on how SMMEs […]
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May
May
“You are what you share” (Charles Leadbeater, We Think: The Power of Mass Creativity) Instagram is a popular photo and video-sharing social media platform with over one-billion active users around the globe. Users are able to share photo or video posts as well as temporary “Stories” that exist on their profile for just 24 hours. […]
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May
May
7 June – Monthly Pay-As-You-Earn (PAYE) submissions and payments 25 June – Value-Added Tax (VAT) manual submissions and payments 29 June – Excise Duty payments 30 June – Value-Added Tax (VAT) electronic submissions and payments 30 June – Corporate Income Tax (CIT) Provisional Tax Payments where applicable 30 June – End of the 1st Financial […]
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Apr
Apr
“The more that energy costs, the less economic activity there can be” (Robert Zubrin) It has been 13 long years since we first experienced load shedding in 2007. Since then, businesses have lost thousands of hours of productivity and significant amounts of money to these “rolling blackouts”. The situation is not going to improve – […]