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Loadshedding: Tax Incentives for Energy Efficiency and Alternative Power

For more than a decade, local businesses have faced the huge challenge of an unreliable power supply from a state-owned monopoly that allowed very little in terms of affordable or practical alternatives. In addition, since then Eskom’s electricity prices continued to skyrocket – increasing by more than 400%. Click here to view | Source: Eskom Distribution Just a […]

Your Tax Deadlines for August 2022

  5 August – Monthly Pay-As-You-Earn (PAYE) submissions and payments 25 August – Value-Added Tax (VAT) manual submissions and payments 30 August – Excise Duty payments 31 August – Value-Added Tax (VAT) electronic submissions and payments & CIT Provisional payments where applicable.

Choosing Accounting Software for Your Small Business

Being able to track money as it is coming in and going out is essential for small business owners. Not having proper cash flow management and a full understanding of where your money is going makes it hard to analyse where your business can improve and whether it is succeeding. Come tax season compiling your […]

The Importance of a Good Credit Score

  A good business credit score is a critical tool in business success as it helps your business unlock, establish and maintain relationships with lenders, suppliers and vendors. It reveals whether an organisation should lend your business money, give it credit or enter into a business relationship. Building good business credit is, therefore, a vital […]

Is Your Trust Registered and Ready for Income Tax?

SARS recently sent out a reminder confirming that in terms of the Income Tax Act, 1962 (ITA), all trusts are taxpayers and that the trustees, who are also the representative taxpayers of the trust, have a responsibility to register the trusts – whether active or dormant – for income tax purposes. The representative taxpayer (trustee/s), […]

Top Ten Tips for Maintaining a Strong Cash Flow

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 […]

Your Tax Deadlines for July 2022

  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.

Tax Season 2022 Now Open: Beware, This Year’s Deadlines are Shorter!

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 […]

Owe SARS a Tax Debt? Here Are Your Options…

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 […]

Keep Your Business Simple!

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 […]