10/19/2015
SOUTH African companies with operations elsewhere in Africa, such as telecommunications giant MTN, have reason to breathe a little easier having earned a tax respite, albeit considered minor by tax experts.
10/16/2015
The measures it proposes create an important basis for evolution of new norms on international tax treaties and to curb aggressive tax planning by companies.
10/13/2015
A double taxation avoidance treaty has helped make the island nation the biggest route for foreign investment into India but potential treaty changes are encouraging a shift in focus to Africa.
10/12/2015
The ANC’s national general council wants a renewed look into possible taxing of South Africa’s wealthy.
10/11/2015
The ANC’s national general council wants a renewed look into possible taxing of South Africa’s wealthy.
10/08/2015
The date of implementation of new rules relating to the tax treatment of contributions to retirement funds, which were expected to take effect on 1 March 2015, was postponed until 1 March 2016, in terms of the Taxation Laws Amendment Act of 2014.
10/08/2015
The DTA with Hong Kong was recently ratified in Hong Kong and in South Africa.
10/05/2015
Reforms to the international tax system for curbing avoidance by multinational enterprises
10/05/2015
Professor Thomas Piketty said that a tax on SA’s wealthy would help shift inequality and poverty, writes Neeran Naidoo.
09/25/2015
Traditionally, information about an individual or business has been sent from one tax authority to another on request
09/23/2015
However, upon appointment of the manager, the partnership will constitute a “portfolio of a declared collective investment scheme”
09/23/2015
All income tax, value added tax and pay-as-you-earn returns are to be filed using the electronic iTax platform.
09/21/2015
The proposed legislation will allow foreign tax authorities to access details of their citizens’ accounts held in Switzerland
09/21/2015
He stressed that every adult – foreign or Nigerian- is chargeable to tax in Nigeria
09/21/2015
The court ruled that the bank should offer the guarantee within 45 days, failure to which KRA will be allowed to demand its claim.
09/18/2015
The bill and the Tax Administration Laws Amendment Bill were the subject of public hearings by the committee.
09/18/2015
As we see the tightening of budgets both within government and the private sector, reforms required to create shared value for communities in which businesses operate, are urgent and far reaching.
09/10/2015
African revenue agencies in dogfight
Paradoxically tax avoidance is not a crime.
09/09/2015
Mr Kaggwa said the treaty is undergoing final touches and in a matter of days, it should be a done deal.
09/08/2015
The league has also proposed that 30 percent of all government tenders awarded by government be set aside for youth-owned companies.