UNDER WHAT CIRCUMSTANCES CAN A PRIVATE COMPANY AND/OR CLOSE CORPORATION BE DEREGISTERED?

During the registration of a company or close corporation that entity acquires a legal personality. This legal personality comes to an end when the directors and/or members decide to deregister the entity. A company or close corporation can be deregistered in one or more of the following ways: by means of a request from the […]

INTEREST FREE LOANS WITH COMPANIES

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 […]