Tag: Tax
Several businesses in Sea Point have begun withholding 50% of their rates payments in...
The affluent suburb of Sea Point in Cape Town has become a virtual 'war zone' according to one of the members of local organisation Concerned Residents of Atlantic Seaboard.
Resident and business...
SA Sugar tax could increase to 20%
Non-profit organisation, the Healthy Living Alliance (Heala) is pushing to have sugar tax increased. Heala presented a memorandum with 17 000 signatures to the Treasury in hopes that it would demonstrate...
OPINION: The inexorable rise of bureaucracies everywhere
SOME readers will recall that the first rather timid parliamentary inquiry into Nkandla’s financing concluded that civil servants fouled up. It was they who let contractors run away with taxpayers’ money.
That...
‘SAA must be placed under business rescue to protect taxpayer money’
An application for the business rescue of South African Airways will be brought by Solidarity, as part of a tax protest campaign it is launching.
This protest includes at least six legal...
Coca-ColaSA reformulates beverages following tax
Coca-Cola South Africa has cut the sugar in its drinks by a quarter (26%) since government introduced a tax on sugary drinks, according to Camilla Osborne, Head of Communications for Coca-Cola Southern and East...
Shoprite serves 100 million R5 deli meals since launch of affordable meal options
This week Shoprite served its 100 millionth R5 deli meal since launching the affordable meal options almost two years ago.
Despite escalating petrol and electricity prices, the VAT increase and the introduction...
Not so sweet: sugar tax is ‘negatively impacting’ industry
Parliament's portfolio committee on trade and industry says it will engage with the Minister of Trade and Industry, following concerns raised by the sugar industry about the negative impact of sugar...
Expat tax is coming to South Africa
An amendment to the South African Income Tax Act, which will have hard-hitting consequences for South Africans working outside South Africa, will come into force in March 2020. South Africans earning...
More South Africans are trying to break their tax link
There has been considerable concern among South African nationals working abroad relating to the impact of legislated changes to the exemption available to them in respect of remuneration earned by them...
A tax revolt is already happening in South Africa
Western Cape premier Helen Zille has sparked controversy by volunteering to lead a tax revolt in South Africa if the government fails to take action against those implicated in corruption –...
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