(Partner Content) Government’s lack of urgency to robustly measure fraud and error to cost taxpayers billions of pounds

SARS advised individual taxpayers to carefully consider any claim for home office expenses before filing their income tax returns.

(Partner Content) As the school holidays fast approach, many parents face having to organise extra school holiday childcare.

(Partner Content) The Let Property Campaign allows landlords who have undeclared income to disclose any outstanding liabilities to the tax authority.

There’s still very little understanding of the concept of pink tax among men and women, although awareness is starting to grow.

Debbie Muir worries that her daughter, Immy, who has autism, will have to move schools next year if an amendment proposed by SARS is passed.

Taxi drivers sparked violent protests on Tuesday, with drivers demanding answers about their outstanding COVID-19 UIF TERS funds.

A recent study of Cape Town’s tax data reveals that Robben Island has the highest median income in the Mother City.

According to financial experts, there’s a prudent way of managing your money that will allow earners to maximise their monthly income

SARS estimate that the minibus taxi industry is paying just 0.00055% of its total earnings in tax – and there are now calls for ‘drastic action’.

A Cape Town doctor performed and funded 12 operations in order to avoid jail time after failing to submit tax returns.

SARS is taking strong action against tax evaders and has made an example of a Gqebera businesswoman and a Cape Town Surgeon.

Tax-dodging? Judge Dennis Davis says lifestyle audits should start at NaTIS after a shock study revealed that ‘most Ferrari owners in SA earn less than R34 000 per month’.

SARS has been allocated additional funding that will soon see it getting tough on high flyers who may not be declaring their true income.

The unlikeliness of what we’ve been asked to believe in, in the national budget becomes apparent in the way one starts to suspect a sleight of hand by a magician.

Excise duty on alcohol and tobacco products has increased by 8% in order to curb excessive drinking, Mboweni said during his Budget Speech.

Tax Justice SA say that hiking tax on booze and smokes is a ‘kick in the teeth’ for consumers and will only serve to embolden crime networks.

With the Budget speech for 2021 set to take place this week, all eyes will be focused of ‘Tito’s tax hikes’ – and there’s already an early favourite.

Small Business owners have pleaded with Tito Mboweni to be cognisant of the informal trade sector when implementing tax hikes.

Experts are calling for a 20% hike in sugar tax due to the health sector’s ongoing battle with the COVID-19 pandemic.

A new set of law amendments has given SARS the power to imprison citizens should they not comply.

South African healthcare experts have suggested that a new ‘alcohol tax’ would go a long way towards helping hospitals cope with increased demand.

Cyril Ramaphosa has stated that financing the vaccine ‘will not be an issue’ on Tuesday, failing to rule out the rapid introduction of a new tax hike.

Tens of millions of South Africans are set to feel the pinch of emergency tax hikes next month, as Treasury scrambles to raise funds for the vaccine rollout.

If the Treasury does go ahead with a tax hike to fund the vaccine rollout, figures provided by SARS and the DA reveal what it may end up costing us.