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Budget Speech 2023 | How it affects you and your business

The 2023 budget speech delivered by Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana brought a fair amount of good news for South Africans. There will be support for households and businesses installing renewable energy, no income tax increases were announced, and the fuel levy remains unchanged, taking some pressure off people’s budgets. However, the Minister could not avoid […]

Your Tax Deadlines for February 2023

  7 February – Monthly Pay-As-You-Earn (PAYE) submissions and payments 27 February – Excise Duty payments 28 February – Value-Added Tax (VAT) electronic submissions and payments & CIT Provisional payments where applicable.

Loadshedding: Survival Tips for Small Businesses

With loadshedding now a constant reality in our lives and Eskom and the government offering no signs of any form of short-term recovery, small business owners are being forced to increasingly adapt in order to survive. Here are our top five tips that might help, beyond simply “buy a generator/inverter”. Adopt work from home Those […]

Budget 2023: The Minister of Finance Wants to Hear from You!

Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana has invited the public to share suggestions on the 2023 Budget he is expected to deliver on Wednesday 22 February 2023. Go to National Treasury’s “Budget Tips for the Minister of Finance” page and fill out the online form.

Ignoring an Online Review Could be Catastrophic for Your Business!

If you have founded a business then there is little less certain than that at some point in the future, you will get a bad review. It’s simply impossible to please all of the people all of the time, which is why many business owners say they don’t worry too much about reviews and try […]

How the New Assessed Loss Tax Limitation Works

The assessed loss rules have always allowed companies to deduct from their taxable income each year any assessed losses from previous years. The remaining assessed loss balances could be carried forward indefinitely. This meant that a company would only pay income tax once it made a taxable profit and all previous assessed losses had been deducted from […]

Maximise Your Business Travel Tax Deduction

Even while recovering from the economic impact of COVID and facing the challenges of power blackouts, businesses and their employees are also contending with the costs of travel that have reached historic highs. Thankfully, expenses related to business travel can be deducted from taxable income – reducing the tax liability for taxpayers, including businesses, employees, […]

Your Tax Deadlines for January 2023

6 January – Monthly Pay-As-You-Earn (PAYE) submissions and payments 30 January – Excise Duty payments 31 January – Value-Added Tax (VAT) electronic submissions and payments & CIT Provisional payments where applicable.

The Importance of Maintaining Your Tax Compliance Status in 2023

Businesses are often required to provide, confirm or share tax clearance information to another entity. This is because proof of tax compliance is an indicator of a company’s good standing in terms of its legal obligations and how well it is managed. There may be instances when an individual, another company, or a government entity […]

The Financial Steps You Need to Take Before You Open Your New Business

You have your idea, you have your mission statement and perhaps you even have an idea of who your first customers will be, but there are still a few things you should consider doing before you launch your company. When it comes to your finances doing these five things in advance will ready you and […]