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 proposed “beneficial owner” disclosure and reporting requirements for listed companies could result in companies moving their primary listing from South Africa to other jurisdictions, the JSE has told the National Assembly’s Standing […]
The National Assembly’s Standing Committee on Finance (Scof) has extended to 25 October the deadline for submitting comments on the omnibus bill aimed at preventing South Africa’s grey-listing next year. On Tuesday, the […]
If South Africa does escape being grey-listed next year, it will be by the skin of our teeth. Time is not on the country’s side when one considers the work that must be […]
The Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) has called for information about the beneficial ownership of companies to be made publicly available. Cosatu and one of its affiliates, the Southern African Clothing […]
The Department of Social Security is not equipped to deal with the registration of every non-profit organisation (NPO) in the country, while the failure of NPOs to register will have dire consequences for […]
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 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 […]
EFF MP Floyd Shivambu lambasted South African Reserve Bank (Sarb) Governor Lesetja Kganyago for not responding to a letter asking the central bank to confirm or deny whether President Cyril Ramaphosa had disclosed […]
Only areas of business where there was no risk of money laundering could be excluded from the ambit of the Financial Intelligence Centre Act (Fica), whereas even low-risk businesses should be accountable institutions, […]
Outsurance Life has proposed that long-term insurers that provide risk products should be excluded as accountable institutions, saying the increased cost of compliance was not proportionate to the low risk these products posed […]
