November 22, 2017
Om ’n suksesvolle besigheid te hê, beteken om seker te maak dat dit aanhou groei. Sonder groei, sal jou besigheid uiteindelik droogloop en stagneer. Maar, met die bykomende verantwoordelikheid om jou besigheid te handhaaf en te sorg dat alles glad verloop, kan dit moeilik wees om te weet waar om besigheidsgroei te soek. Kyk uit vir kostebesparings Hierdie punt is veral waar wanneer jou besigheid probeer om ’n sukkelende ekonomie te oorleef. Om kostebesparende keuses te maak kan makliker of moeiliker word, afhangende van hoe jy jou inkomste/s en uitgawes bestuur. Probeer kostebesparings vind waar jy ook al kan. Watter […]
April 11, 2017
The latest annual nation budget presented in Parliament proposed the dividends tax rate to be increased with almost immediate effect from 15% to 20%. The increased rate brings into renewed focus what anti-avoidance measures exist in the Income Tax Act[1] that seeks to ensure that the dividends tax is not avoided. Most commonly, the dividends tax is levied on dividends paid by a company to individuals or trusts that are shareholders of that company. To the extent that the shareholder is a South African tax resident company, no dividends tax is levied on payments to such shareholders.[2] In other words, […]
April 11, 2017
It is very often the case that a company extends an interest free or low interest loan to a director. This manifests either as a true incentive or benefit to that director (mostly the case in larger corporate environments) or in a small business environment in lieu of salaries paid. The latter is especially the case for example where a spouse or family trust would hold the shares in the company running the family business, but which business is conducted through the efforts of the individual to whom a loan is granted from time to time. In terms of the […]
January 12, 2017
The KwaZulu-Natal High Court previously granted an application brought by Van der Merwe and others (acting as liquidators) requiring the Commissioner for the South African Revenue Service to release certain assets held by him under his control in a customs warehouse. The assets in question were being held by the Commissioner as security for payment of outstanding Value-Added Tax and customs duty liabilities owed by the insolvent taxpayer involved. After losing in the KwaZulu-Natal High Court, the Commissioner took the matter on appeal to the Supreme Court of Appeal. This judgment is reported as CSARS v Van der Merwe NO […]
May 11, 2016
We have recently become aware of an increased level of audits being conducted by the South African Revenue Service in relation to taxpayers’ obligations in terms of the Skills Development Levies Act, 9 of 1999 (SDL Act). The focus appears to be specifically on non-compliant taxpayers who fail to register as required in terms of section 5 of the SDL Act, and thus for these employers to pay the requisite levy over to SARS. The problem is perhaps amplified thereby that the skills development levy is often considered an ‘unimportant’ tax by taxpayers (primarily due to it being less costly […]
January 29, 2016
Mense sê dikwels hunkerend: “Ek wens ek het my eie besigheid gehad”. Sommige neem dit verder en besluit watter soort produk of diens hul wil lewer. ‘n Paar gaan selfs so ver om pen op papier te sit en beplanning en berekenings te doen. Op hierdie stadium is dit raadsaam om die faktore wat hier gelys word, te oorweeg. Hierdie is nie ‘n volledige lys nie, maar wel ‘n goeie beginpunt. Voordat u tyd en energie aan die oprigting van ‘n besigheid spandeer, moet u seker maak dat u ‘n redelike kans op sukses het. Sommige faktore wat u kan […]
December 3, 2015
Indien u ‘n besigheid in die privaat sektor het en u PAIA-handleiding is nog nie opgetrek nie, is dit nou die tyd om daarmee te begin, aangesien PAIA-handleidings vir privaat entiteite teen 31 Desember 2015 aan die Suid-Afrikaanse Menseregtekommissie (SAMRK) voorgelê moet word. Weet u wie die Inligtingsbeampte gaan wees (dit kan u wees!) en watter inligting in ‘n PAIA-handleiding ingesluit moet word? Indien nie, lees gerus verder. Watter persoon in ‘n organisasie is verantwoordelik vir die PAIA-handleiding? Die hoof van ‘n privaat entiteit is verantwoordelik vir die samestelling en voorlegging van die PAIA-handleiding aan die SAMRK. In die geval […]
July 13, 2015
Die samestelling en verifiëring van ‘n telkaart van ‘n entiteit in terme van die Wet op Breedgebaseerde Swart Ekonomiese Bemagtiging (BGSEB) word uitgevoer volgens die Kodes vir Goeie Praktyk (die Kodes) wat deur die Departement van Handel en Nywerheid (dti) uitgereik is. Die Kodes is gewysig en die nuwe Kodes is op Vrydag 11 Oktober 2013 in die Gazette gepubliseer. Hierdie verandering sal ‘n beduidende impak hê op die BGSEB-strategie van ondernemings, en daar sal deeglik besin moet word oor aanpassings van hierdie aspek. Belangrike veranderings van die vorige Kodes sluit in: Die sewe elemente op die telkaart is tot […]
June 10, 2015
Your business will stagnate if you keep to the status quo. You cannot just keep doing what you’ve always done. Take former movie rental giant Blockbuster as an example. Even its brand familiarity and market dominance was not enough to save it when other companies reacted to critical market changes, and Blockbusters didn’t. Review the following steps to ensure that your business strategy evolves and develops to make your business grow. Step One: Cultivate creativity Every business has to innovate to stay in the race. Cultivate creativity in your company. Bring diverse employees with diverse ideas together and encourage them […]