Taxpayers should inform SARS if they have been unemployed for a full year or longer, to avoid being flagged as non-compliant.
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The Financial Services Tribunal (FST) has told the FSCA to reconsider the penalty of R4 000 a day it imposed on Akani Retirement Fund Administrators in 2020 for not submitting reports timeously. The total […]
The National Assembly’s Standing Committee on Finance has announced the deadline for written submissions on the General Laws (Anti-Money Laundering and Combating Terrorism Financing) Amendment Bill, which amends five pieces of legislation. Read: […]
A representative who failed to attend his debarment hearing was also a no-show when his reconsideration application was heard by the Financial Services Tribunal (FST). The representative’s ground for reconsideration was that he […]
Financial Services Tribunal upholds their debarment, saying ‘filching’ client information is not only a contractual issue.
Whistleblower asserts that members’ money was stolen, although a forensic investigation found no evidence of this.
Adjudicator said the fund was ‘wrong’ to rely on the fact that the sons were not financial dependants.
National Treasury has “loosened the lids” on the pots in the two-pot retirement system, agreeing to amend the draft legislation so that fund members will be able to access the savings they accumulated […]
The Association for Savings and Investment South Africa (Asisa) has welcomed National Treasury’s decision to move out, by a year, the date for implementing the two-pot retirement system but still believes the new […]
National Treasury has proposed amending the draft two-pot retirement legislation to clear up a number of grey areas identified by stakeholders. The proposed changes were announced on Tuesday, when Treasury addressed the National […]
The High Court in Johannesburg has placed Constantia Insurance Company Limited (CICL) in final liquidation after granting the urgent application brought by the Prudential Authority (PA) and the short-term insurer’s curator at the […]
Multisure Corporation’s attempt bring into operation the High Court order cancelling its intermediary agreement with KGA Life has failed, despite a successful High Court ruling last month, because KGA has been granted leave […]
The Association for Savings and Investment South Africa (Asisa) says retirement funds and administrators would like at least 18 months from the date on which the final legislation is gazetted in which to […]
Cosatu has called for fund members to be allowed to access their accumulated savings when the two-pot retirement system takes effect, to prevent them from resigning and cashing out their savings. This was […]
The High Court in Johannesburg has placed Health Squared under provisional curatorship following an application brought by the Council for Medical Schemes (CMS). The provisional curatorship is effective from 8 September. The court-appointed […]
The recent High Court case involving Blackspear Holdings, Bryte Insurance and the South African Special Risk Insurance Association (Sasria) had a sequel last month, when the court had to decide whether the claim […]
The Financial Services Tribunal (FST) has decided that a retirement fund was correct in refusing to deduct a judgment debt from the withdrawal benefit of a former employee whose negligent or reckless driving […]
