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Interest Rate Hikes: How to Buffer Your Business in 2022 and Beyond
“The implied policy rate path of the Quarterly Projection Model indicates an increase of 25 basis points in the fourth quarter of 2021 and further increases in each quarter of 2022, 2023 and 2024.” (Lesetja Kganyago, SARB Governor) After cutting interest rates by 275...
Five Tips for Improving Your Workforce Management
“It is equally important to know if we have a happy and engaged workforce as it is to have a profitable bottom line.” (Vern Dosch, Wired Differently) Managing any workforce, but particularly a large one across many units, sometimes in multiple countries, is far from...
The Top 10 Complaints Against SARS: What You Can Do to Protect Your Rights
“… the OTO commits to continue doing everything possible to ensure that taxpayers are not forced to pay a cent more than what is required.” (Judge Bernard Makgabo Ngoepe, the Tax Ombud) The list of the top 10 complaints made against SARS over the last eight years to...
SMEs – Why You Should Consider Employee Benefit Packages
“Human resources isn’t a thing we do, it’s the thing that runs our business” (American real estate developer, Steve Wynne) An effective employee benefit strategy is more of an advantage to an employer than may at first meet the eye. Although providing...
Your Tax Deadlines for January 2022
7 January Monthly Pay-As-You-Earn (PAYE) submissions and payments25 January Value-Added Tax (VAT) manual submissions and payments28 January End of Filing Season 2021 for Individuals (Provisional) and Trusts28 January Excise Duty payments31 January Value-Added Tax...
‘Tis the Season for Giving but Beware the Taxman!
“Think of giving not as a duty but as a privilege.” (John D. Rockefeller Jr.) Christmas is a time for giving, and in our local business environment, as well as in many other markets around the world, it may even be unofficially expected of companies...
The Hybrid Workforce Debate: What SMEs Need to Know
“Success in a hybrid work environment requires employers to move beyond viewing remote or hybrid environments as a temporary or short term strategy and to treat it as an opportunity” (Vice President of Gartner, George Penn) The gradual transition from the conventional...
What To Do When Preparing to Sell Your Business
“As much as you might love running your business, you must have an end-goal in the plan. At the very least, an exit strategy keeps you from turning your business into a glorified job – working from home, but with longer hours.” (Kevin J. Donaldson) A new year beckons,...
Festive Season Cybercrime Alert: Tips from SARS
“Cyber Attack: An attack, via cyberspace, targeting an enterprise’s use of cyberspace for the purpose of disrupting, disabling, destroying, or maliciously controlling a computing environment/infrastructure; or destroying the integrity of the data or stealing...
Your Tax Deadlines for December 2021
2 December – Extended filing season deadline for non-provisional individual taxpayers (originally 23 November 2021)7 December – Monthly Pay-As-You-Earn (PAYE) submissions and payments24 December – Value-Added Tax (VAT) manual submissions and payments30 December...
What Auto-Assessed Taxpayers Must Know as the November Deadline Looms
“The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax” (Albert Einstein) A year after the first mass auto-assessments were issued by SARS in 2020, many more taxpayers are facing the 2021 tax season deadline of 23 November – just days away! Read on to...
How To Get a R1.8m CGT Exclusion When Selling Your Small Business
“The tax on capital gains directly affects investment decisions, the mobility and flow of risk capital… the ease or difficulty experienced by new ventures in obtaining capital, and thereby the strength and potential for growth in the economy” (John F. Kennedy)...