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Unpaid taxes costing SA billions, say AU report
[Tamar Kahn] SA is losing billions of rand in unpaid taxes as companies, criminals and wealthy individuals siphon money out of the country, says a report adopted by the AU... read more>>



Actuarial & Insurance
'Renovating' your home insurance policy
Thinking of renovating? Consider how this will affect your insurance needs, both during and after the renovations... read more>>
Vodacom takes insurance market bull by the horns
Vodacom's insurance unit aims to grow at 30%-40%, adding another revenue stream as the growth rate in voice revenue slows down... read more>>
Centriq appoints FirstProp as underwriter
Zurich SA partners Auto Trade Underwriting Managers
Financial Services
Mobile payment removes barriers of time and location

Paul Opie

In emerging markets, mobile money services have the power to simplify lives, offering people the convenience of paying from anywhere and at any time, but also to transform them... read more>>
Advisors can help to achieve financial peace of mind
The trick to achieving financial peace of mind, is to compartmentalise your various assets in order to both understand your current and future needs, as well as how to fund these at each stage... read more>>
Markets & Investment
New York Forum AFRICA to coincide with AGOA Forum
The New York Forum AFRICA (NYFA), will now take place on 29-31 August in Libreville, Gabon under the patronage of Ali Bongo Ondimba, president of the Gabonese Republic... read more>>
Foreign direct investment could drive property market
An exciting ride from the property sector during a year that is full of potential is the forecast for South Africa... read more>>
Strong start to the year for Sappi

Nick Hedley

Sappi's shares last week traded at over R50 for the first time since 2008. The significance of that year is that it was then that the pulp-and-paper company purchased a coated graphic paper business in Europe, which helped bury it under a pile of debt during the global financial crisis... read more>>
Taxation & Regulation
Transfer duty - taxing for buyers and ultimately also sellers

Andrew Golding

Taxing a sale between a willing home owner and buyer is controversial in most countries in which it is levied; no less so than in South Africa, where it is termed transfer duty. Its critics argue that it is simply a tax for which there is no specific reason or rationale, other than to help fill national coffers... read more>>
Impact of new Binding Private Ruling 185

Heinrich Louw

The South African Revenue Service (SARS) released Binding Private Ruling 185 on 11 December 2014, which deals with the disposal of assets and the assumption of (contingent) liabilities in terms of s42 of the Income Tax Act, No 58 of 1962... read more>>
SARS senior official resigns
The South African Revenue Service (SARS) on Wednesday, 4 February 2015, confirmed that Johann van Loggerenberg, a senior official, has resigned from SARS with immediate effect. read more>>
Africa
New money transfer service for Africa
Orange and Ecobank launch money transfer service between Orange Money accounts and bank accounts in Africa... read more>>
Tanzania's Tigo pays out millions to users
Tigo, one of Tanzania's mobile phone operators, has paid out millions to its users, reports Mobile Money Africa... read more>>
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