The South African dollar-billionaire club is notoriously exclusive – and one member is clinging to his ‘membership’ by the barest of margins.
According to Forbes, Johann Rupert has made more money in the past 12 months than any other South African. But he’s not top of the tree in Mzansi yet…
(Partner Content) It has been widely reported that SARS has committed to probing the tax affairs, and information disclosed by high-net-worth individuals (“HNWI”) on their tax returns, in order to determine their compliance with the respective tax legislation, with the establishment of the High Wealth Individual Taxpayer Segment (HWI).
(Partner Content) The process of financial emigration, which is the process that allows a taxpayer to formally place themselves on record as a non-resident for tax purposes with the South African Revenue Service (SARS), recently changed and came into effect on 1 March 2021.
(Partner Content) In 1911, coal miners would delve into the depths of the earth with little or no guiding light and none but their own belaboured breath as company. These men faced a silent killer – carbon monoxide levels underground could increase until it was too late for them and no one was left standing. So, they would take a canary with them as an early warning system. If the canary died, trouble was soon to follow.
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(Partner Content) Standard Bank has drastically lowered its ATM fees for cash withdrawal at non-Standard Bank ATMs by removing Saswitch fees – making banking, simpler, more convenient, and cheaper for its customers.
Why are there no protests? Why are people not calling for the head of the President when our vaccine rollout has failed so spectacularly?
The overall take-home pay in South Africa increased for the first time since May 2020 but all is not as it seems.
Lockdown blues, the detrimental effects that COVID-19 has had on mental and physical health need to be addressed by businesses. Here’s how.
(Partner Content) Who does not dream of wealth, fast cars, and success beyond one’s wildest imagination?
(Partner Content) More has been disclosed, leaked, of this year’s Budget announcements than in previous years. But we now have the details and there is a lot to consider.
(Partner Content) The UK Budget has laid out a plan to help businesses and individuals recover from the COVID-19 pandemic, by offering schemes, grants, and tax exemptions to rescue those facing a crisis.
A stimulus package like this is not always constant sum; what is good for the US can be destructive for the emerging world.
(Partner Content) We are sitting in the plush office of the Belresheed group founder Obaid Belresheed. The room is tastefully done with exquisite mahogany woodwork for walls and an ornate marble ceiling. “Keeping the heritage alive is very important to me,” says Belresheed. This live-wire, young business tycoon takes a moment from his packed day to recount his journey to the top of UAE’s real estate market.
There’s a new R2 coin in circulation for South Africa – and, just hours after its release, the SA Mint has had to issue a statement on its ‘sell-on value’.
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Whether or not the sunlit uplands depicted by both the President and Minister Tito Mboweni should transpire is, almost certainly, not up to them.
(Partner Content) Tax Consulting South Africa Legal Manager, Africa Tax and Compliance, Jashwin Baijoo said the firm had recently noticed an increasing trend of large multi-national enterprises (MNEs) seeking to break into the African frontier by expanding their operations across multiple countries to tap these burgeoning new markets.
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Standard Bank customers are fuming after transactions went off more than once. Some who were trying to make payment had their cards decline.
(Partner Content) The New Financial Emigration Announced by SARB
(Partner Content) South African owned firms and locally based multi-national businesses have a range of visas to consider when seeking to employ foreigners, but clearly the most useful visa to apply for when foreign skills are needed urgently on site is the Short Term Work Visa in terms of Section 11(2) of the Immigration Act.
(Partner Content) South African farmers who operate their businesses close to the country’s borders with neighbours such as Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Swaziland and Lesotho, where sources of labour including semi-skilled workers abound, can apply for a bulk visa to import labour when required.