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8 Tips for Marketing Your Business on Instagram

Instagram is a popular photo and video-sharing social media platform with over one-billion active users around the globe. Users are able to share photo or video posts as well as temporary “Stories” that exist on their profile for just 24 hours. What many don’t know is that users are also able to shop directly from […]

Youth Day: Why Our Young People Are So Important to Your Business

Youth Day commemorates and celebrates the impact the youth of a country can have on the future – the Soweto Uprising on 16 June 1976 changed the course of history. The size of its young population is Africa’s huge asset and a strong competitive advantage, according to The African Development Bank: a large youth population, […]

How SMMEs Can Benefit Financially from the Fourth Industrial Revolution

With the increased buzz around 4IR (the Fourth Industrial Revolution) in the last year particularly, due to lockdowns and “isolated industrialization”, it’s befitting to zoom-in the lens on how SMMEs (Small, Medium and Micro Enterprises) can better embrace and utilise the new operational technologies migration to their advantage. Words like Big Data, Internet of Things, […]

Got Cryptocurrency? Here’s How Much SARS Wants…

Note: The risks and consequences of willfully or negligently failing to make full and true declarations to SARS, or to submit documents or information requested by SARS are now substantial, so ask your accountant for advice specific to your circumstances! Cryptocurrencies have been around for over a decade, with the first and most famous one […]

Uncertain, Costly Power Supply: How to Mitigate Your Risk

It has been 13 long years since we first experienced load shedding in 2007. Since then, businesses have lost thousands of hours of productivity and significant amounts of money to these “rolling blackouts”. The situation is not going to improve – more load shedding is predicted, by Eskom itself, for the next five years together […]

Your Tax Deadlines for May 2021

7 May – Monthly Pay-As-You-Earn (PAYE) submissions and payments 25 May – Value-Added Tax (VAT) manual submissions and payments 28 May – Excise Duty payments 31 May – Value-Added Tax (VAT) electronic submissions and payments 31 May – Corporate Income Tax (CIT) Provisional Tax Payments where applicable

A Basic Guide to PAYE and Four Common Mistakes

  If it weren’t for the PAYE system, which forces employees to pay taxes as they earn their money, each of us would be liable for a lump sum payment of between 18% and 45% of our total monthly earnings at the end of each tax year. Pay As You Earn (PAYE) requires that employers […]

Your Tax Deadlines for April 2021

7 April – Monthly Pay-As-You-Earn (PAYE) submissions and payments 23 April – Value-Added Tax (VAT) manual submissions and payments 29 April – Excise Duty payments 30 April – Value-Added Tax (VAT) electronic submissions and payments 30 April – Corporate Income Tax (CIT) Provisional payments where applicable.