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Your Tax Deadlines for March 2025
07 March - PAYE submissions and payments 25 March – VAT manual submissions and payments 28 March – Excise duty payments 31 March – End of the 2023/24 Financial year, VAT electronic submissions and payments, & CIT Provisional Tax payments where applicable....
Are You Ready for the Next Provisional Tax Deadline?
“Death, taxes, and childbirth! There’s never any convenient time for any of them.” (Margaret Mitchell) What is provisional tax? Provisional tax allows corporate and individual provisional taxpayers to pay their annual income tax in advance by making two or three...
Building a Business: Should You Bring in Funders or Go it Alone?
“As an entrepreneur, one of the biggest challenges you will face will be building your brand. The ultimate goal is to set your company and your brand apart from the crowd.” (Ryan Holmes, Founder and CEO of Hootsuite) Trying to get a business off the ground is...
What Your Balance Sheet Says About Your Business
“It sounds extraordinary, but it's a fact that balance sheets can make fascinating reading.” (Mary Archer) A balance sheet reveals a company’s “book value” by showing what assets it owns, what liabilities it owes, and the equity or net worth attributable to its...
The Enormous Benefits of Non-Profit Collaborations
“The unfortunate need people who will be kind to them; the prosperous need people to be kind to.” (Aristotle) Strategic business partnerships are an integral part of any successful business and yet very few entrepreneurs think of the opportunities which arise from...
Your Tax Deadlines for February 2025
07 February – Monthly PAYE submissions and payments 25 February – Value Added Tax (VAT) manual submissions and payments 27 February – Excise duty payments 28 February – VAT electronic submissions and payments, Corporate Income Tax (CIT) Provisional Tax payments where...
3 Things You Have to Do to Position Your Business for Growth in 2025
“There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work and learning from failure.” (Colin Powell, United States Secretary of State) Of course you plan for your business to grow. But in an environment of constant change, it can be hard to know...
Tax Compliance in 2025: Help Is at Hand
"Being tax compliant and ‘paying your fair share’ is not just good for you, but also contributes to the positive growth of our country’s economy which in turn benefits all South Africans." (SARS) Being tax-compliant is a legal requirement for all South Africans. ...
Starting a New Business? Here Are the Tax Implications…
“A goal without a plan is just a wish.” (Antoine De Saint-Exupery, author of The Little Prince) Want to start a business? SARS warns you to be aware of the tax obligations of running a business, whether it’s in the form of a legal entity or in your personal...
Why Email is Destroying Your Business (And How to Stop it)
“There's life and death in every email.” (Bill Gates) Over the past 25 years, email has become synonymous with office life: a recent study found that the average worker sends between 9,000 and 15,000 emails a year. All of this is happening despite email being...