Owners of small- and medium-sized businesses (SMEs) have a lot on their plate. Between day-to-day operations, sales and marketing and other responsibilities...
A beginner's guide to essential documents you need for a new company in South Africa (and details on where to get them)...
Government has launched the pilot phase of a new business portal, led by the Companies and Intellectual Property Commission (CIPC)...
The performance of Sars and the path it has been taking has been called into question of late, with a number of tax-related bombshells being dropped one after the other in recent months...
Patricia Williams 29 Jan 2018
With property fraud on the rise, buyers and sellers need to be ultra-vigilant, says Chris Tyson, chief executive of Tyson Properties...
If passed by Parliament, the Draft Taxation Laws Amendment Bill proposal to remove foreign remuneration tax exemption will impact the willingness of South Africans to work abroad...
Registering a new company can often be a daunting task. A new industry has emerged over the past few years in which "company registration specialists" offer a personal start-up service to new companies...
Finance Minister Nhlanhla Nene said the South African Revenue Service (SARS) is committed to closing the net on tax dodgers, but labour unrest and slow economic growth were obstacles.
The Tax Administration Act (Act 28 of 2011) took effect from 1 October, apart from certain provisions relating to interest, which will take effect from a date still to be determined. According to the SARS Short Guide to the Tax Administration Act, the Act "aims to simplify and consolidate, into one Act, a more logical and systematic way of dealing with the tax administration law.
Over a hundred informal traders recently gathered at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg to get more information about registering their businesses.
Makoena Pabale 16 Jul 2008
Africa has moved from last place to third in this year's regional rankings for reforms that encourage new enterprises, formal sector jobs and growth, according to the recent World Bank/IFC report, Doing Business 2007: How to Reform.
Tanzania, Ghana are two of the top 10 global reformers for 2005-2006 and the continent as an entity moved up the rankings.
According to a report issued by the International Finance Corporation, doing business in a number of African countries during 2007 is going to be easier than in the past.