There are numerous articles on what can go wrong with a trust but, because they are mostly written by copy and paste “experts” they tend to be over theoretical and mostly miss the most obvious mistakes. In fact, I have not read one article that deals with the fundamental errors that are so common...
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Latest Blogs from our CEO, Derek Springett
CIPC have a website called BizPortal which is intended for people who wish to register their own company. It is not intended for the likes of us who register companies for other people.
They’ve tried to make it simple and we know of a few people who have navigated their way through the process, b...
Everywhere you look, even on SARS’ website, you will see that you can make a third (voluntary) provisional tax payment by 30 September for February year end entities and six months after the tax year end for other entities.
Why would you want to do this? The tax for the previous year ending Febru...
Whenever we form or amend a trust for a client, we write a Will for the client and their spouse at no charge. This is essential because the trust and the Wills are closely linked and refer to each other.
I am usually appointed as the executor and should, therefore, be holding the originally signe...
With the change in company tax rate from 28% to 27%, the question again arises whether to pay yourself in salary or in dividends.
Salary is straightforward, but you need to bear in mind the additional cost of monthly payroll services. This totals about R14 000 per year, or R10 500 net of tax.
The...
Let’s deal with the easy one first.
A trust bank account is an ordinary bank account that the trustees of a trust must, in accordance with the Trust Property Control Act, open if they receive money on behalf of the trust. The first (and often only) money they receive will usually be the R100 dona...
I get numerous WhatApps like these –
- Hi can you assist to register a constraction canpony or where is the best place to go?
- Evening i should like to register my company how do I do to go through?
- Hello hoeveel om te registration
- Hi my name is Tebogo john M I need ck what r Way’s to follow
- How do...
Trusts are taxed at 45% and their CGT rate is 36%. That’s why I so often hear that “SARS is targeting trusts”. So, how is it that trusts are one of the main instruments for saving tax?
Firstly, no properly structured trust should ever earn income tax or capital gains, so the above two taxes are t...
I had an interesting meeting with a guy who’s failed three Board papers on the trot. They were –
- Ethics
- Wills and Estates
- Bookkeeping
He’d passed Court Procedures because that’s what he does for a living.
I started out by saying a few basic things –
- An exam is not an opportunity to show the ex...
We had already made the decision to relocate to Knysna. We based it on the beautiful coastal scenery and the forests.
Then, before we moved, we started taking an interest in air quality. There’s an American standard that measures AQI, the Air Quality Index, on a scale from 0 to 500. Things start ...
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