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“The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.” (Albert Einstein) With an increasing amount of business being conducted online, it’s perfectly possible to live in one country and earn an income in another. If you are conducting services for global corporations and earning foreign income in…

06 December – Monthly Pay-As-You-Earn (PAYE) submissions and payments 24 December – Value-Added Tax (VAT) manual submissions and payments 30 December – Excise Duty payments 31 December – Corporate Income Tax (CIT) Provisional Tax payments 31 December – End of the 3rd fiscal quarter 31 December – Value-Added Tax (VAT)…

“Over the next few years, we are also implementing a global minimum corporate tax to limit the negative effects of tax competition.” (Enoch Godongwana, Minister of Finance, Budget 2024) There have been significant shifts in the corporate income tax landscape in South Africa and globally. Recent trends noted by the…

07 November – Monthly PAYE submissions and payments 25 November – Value Added Tax (VAT) manual submissions and payments 28 November – Excise duty payments 29 November – VAT electronic submissions and payments, Corporate Income Tax Provisional Tax payments where applicable. Disclaimer: The information provided herein should not be used or…

“…it is vital that all stakeholders in the digital ecosystem, including the taxpayers, SARS, and the banks, work together to prevent and combat profile hijacking.” (SARS) The recent spike in the number of SARS eFiling profiles being hacked by cybercriminals should raise red flags for every taxpayer. It’s got so…

“The interim reconciliation process has become an integral part of the employer reconciliation and assists employers…” (SARS) Employers are assisted by the interim EMP501 reconciliation, says SARS, because it makes it easier to: make more accurate annual reconciliation submissions maintain an up-to-date employee database register employees for income tax purposes…

07 October – Monthly PAYE submissions and payments 21 October – End of filing season for individual taxpayers (non-provisional) 25 October – Value Added Tax (VAT) manual submissions and payments 30 October – Excise duty payments 31 October – VAT electronic submissions and payments, Corporate Income Tax Provisional Tax payments…

“The two-pot system is meant to support long-term retirement savings while offering flexibility to help fund members in financial distress.” (National Treasury) With two new pots added to what used to be the one-pot South African retirement system, fund members can now access a portion of their retirement savings before…