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Of all the roles, a small business owner takes on, often the most challenging is managing the business's finances. You can improve your chances for success - and your profitability - by being aware of and steering clear of these common small business money mistakes.

We previously reported on the introduction of section 7C of the Income Tax Act, 58 of 1962. In terms of this targeted anti-avoidance provision, National Treasury sought to attack interest free loans granted to trusts by connected persons of that trust.

Dis heerlike lente, die winter is verby! Vir meeste van ons voel dit asof ons die koue berg van winter oorwin het en met elke dag se vroeër sonsopkoms en later sonsondergang, kry almal ‘n nuwe huppel in hul stap. Ons hoop julle sien soveel uit na die oorblywende deel van die jaar...

While many people immigrate to South Africa, we also see many of our clients emigrating from South Africa. And while formal migration-status is not necessarily linked to tax residency, the time of tax migration often coincides with formal emigration linked to passport or visum status.

Capital gains tax is somewhat of a misnomer in that it does not represent a tax in and of itself, but rather operates to include a portion of a person’s capital gains realised when an asset is sold in that person’s taxable income, and which taxable income is then subject to income tax.

Many South African taxpayers earning a salary abroad have for many years been able to benefit from so-called “double non-taxation”. This would be the case where salaries are earned in countries where the employer country would not tax salaries earned in that country...