by admin | Mar 16, 2021 | Tax
With a large portion of employees working from home during the lockdown, many people have asked the question of whether, and how, they can benefit from personal tax deductions in respect of working from home. Up to date, there were no announcements in terms of any...
by admin | Feb 16, 2021 | Tax
Understanding how your estate will be taxed and how the various tax laws apply is key to formulating a good estate plan. It is important while doing estate planning, to make sure that it is aligned with your will and that it is formulated in such a way that the tax...
by admin | Jul 3, 2020 | Tax
It is not forbidden in South African tax law to minimize your tax payable. The principle of tax structuring forms part of our common law and our Income Tax Act has a section dealing with transactions that are solely entered into for tax evasion. To understand the...
by admin | Jun 16, 2020 | Tax
Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, SARS is currently enhancing its efforts to simplify the tax return filing requirements for individual taxpayers and removing the need to travel to their branches in 2020. Through the increased use of third-party data, SARS will be...
by admin | Apr 2, 2020 | Tax
Following the media statement issued by the Minister of Finance on 29 March 2020 on Tax Measures to Combat the COVID-19 pandemic, the National Treasury and the South African Revenue Service (SARS) published, for public comment, the 2020 Draft Disaster Management Tax...
by admin | Feb 26, 2020 | Tax
There is nothing wrong with Tax structuring of an employee’s salary. South African Income Tax Case Law confirms that it is fine to structure an employee’s remuneration to pay as little as possible Tax. Structuring an employee’s package can also not be subject to the...
