Managing cash flow is often one of the biggest challenges business owners face and is also the reason for a concerningly large percentage of business failures. Cash flow can be defined as the total amount of money that comes in and then goes out of a business and – crucially – the timing between cash […]
7 July – Monthly Pay-As-You-Earn (PAYE) submissions and payments 25 July – Value-Added Tax (VAT) manual submissions and payments 28 July – Excise Duty payments 29 July – Value-Added Tax (VAT) electronic submissions and payments & CIT Provisional payments where applicable.
In this article, we look at the who, how and when of this 2022 Tax Season; highlight some issues that require special attention; and suggest practical next steps to help you avoid the last-minute rush, the risk of errors and omissions, and the cost of late submissions, penalties and audits. At a glance Tax Season […]
To avoid tax debt, penalties and interest, it is best to file returns and make payments timeously. However, for a range of reasons, taxpayers may not be able to meet these requirements on time, finding themselves facing a tax debt owed to SARS. There are different ways in which tax debt can arise, and while […]
It is easy in business culture to start believing that more is more. Entrepreneurs often fall into the trap that more meetings, more employees, more products and more leads is equal to more success. Many large companies have failed because they branched out too much, lost focus and, as a result, lost their market. Quite […]
For years you have been working in the industry of your choice and now you have decided to start your own business. At this point it’s hard to see just what you are going to need to do to transition the business to a thriving enterprise. One of the major skills you’ll need is the […]
7 June – Monthly Pay-As-You-Earn (PAYE) submissions and payments 24 June – Value-Added Tax (VAT) manual submissions and payments 29 June – Excise Duty payments 30 June – Value-Added Tax (VAT) electronic submissions and payments & CIT Provisional payments where applicable 30 June – End of the 1st Financial Quarter
Just 20% of South Africans have a valid will (“Last Will and Testament”), resulting in countless heart-breaking stories of grief-stricken surviving spouses and children with no income or access to funds as bank accounts have been closed, floundering in confusion with no idea where the deceased’s will or important documents are kept, what assets and […]
When people hear the term “crisis management” they immediately picture a PR team in front of the media defending a company from an unpredictable disaster, but crises that close down businesses are seldom unpredictable and even those that come out of the blue don’t need to close a company down. Here are 6 things you […]
“Tax Freedom Day” is the first day of the year on which we South Africans (we’re talking about the “average” taxpayer here) have finally earned enough to pay off SARS and to start working for ourselves. This year the predicted date was 12 May 2022. That’s three days later than last year, and a whole […]
