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Ten Often-Overlooked Ways Your Accountant Can Help Your Business
“If you talk to a top accountant about his field of expertise, it's mind-boggling.” (Vincent Kompany, professional football manager and former player) Accountants are the tax and compliance champions of any industry, but the best ones do so much more for their...
Directors: Prepare and Submit Your Company’s Beneficial Ownership Register
“The lack of adequate, accurate and up-to-date beneficial ownership information facilitates money laundering and terrorist financing by allowing criminals to hide their true identities, and the true purpose and/or source or use of funds.” (Financial Intelligence...
How to Prepare for a Possible Electricity Blackout
"Eskom plays a critical role in the life of South Africa, and life of South Africans. Due to its important role in the economy, its inability to provide electricity on demand and on time is a crisis." (President Cyril Ramaphosa) The South African Reserve Bank’s...
Is Your Information Safe With SARS?
"Confidentiality of taxpayer information has always been a fundamental cornerstone of tax systems… taxpayers need to have confidence that the often-sensitive financial information is not disclosed inappropriately, whether intentionally or by accident." (Organisation...
Your Tax Deadlines for July 2023
7 July - Monthly Pay-As-You-Earn (PAYE) submissions and payments 28 July - Excise Duty payments 31 July - Value-Added Tax (VAT) electronic submissions and payments & CIT Provisional payments where applicable. Disclaimer: The information provided herein should not...
How to Use AI to Improve Your Small Business
“The amount of work we can automate with AI is vastly larger than before. As leaders, it is incumbent on all of us to make sure we are building a world in which every individual has an opportunity to thrive.” (Andrew Ng, Co-founder and lead of Google Brain) Artificial...
New Trustee Duties: More Admin, Impossible Deadlines and Hefty Penalties
“A trustee has a responsibility to guard the assets of others with a higher degree of care than he does his own.” (John Ashcroft) Onerous new duties have recently been imposed on all trustees of all trusts - by government through legislative amendments, and also by...
When to Say No to an Opportunity (or a “Barnacle”)
“The difference between successful people and really successful people is that really successful people say no to almost everything.” (Warren Buffet, Investor) Anyone who has ever started a business knows the feeling a new enquiry can generate. The excitement that...
Can the R&D Tax Incentive Benefit Your Business?
“The government expects that, by encouraging companies to undertake R&D in South Africa, local companies will strengthen their capabilities of developing value-added products, technologies and services.” (Department of Science and Innovation (DSI) - South Africa)...
Your Tax Deadlines for June 2023
7 June - Monthly Pay-As-You-Earn (PAYE) submissions and payments 29 June - Excise Duty payments 30 June – End of the 1st Financial Quarter 30 June - Value-Added Tax (VAT) electronic submissions and payments & CIT Provisional payments where applicable. Disclaimer:...