TGS South Africa News

July 28, 2021

Home Office Expenses: To Claim or Not to Claim?

“We would simply ask taxpayers to consider carefully the longer-term implication of defining an area in their primary residence as a home office for tax purposes” […]
July 28, 2021

6 Tips on Surviving the Failure of a Big Client

“Generosity is a virtue, but unlimited generosity is a fast route to bankruptcy” (Bret Stephens) Healthy cash flow is what keeps a company afloat. The ability […]
July 28, 2021

Alternative Funding for Your Small Business

“When looking for funding, don’t just look for cash. Look for the right people” (American fashion entrepreneur, Jodie Fox) According to South African Reserve Bank data, […]
July 28, 2021

Audit Your Employee Taxes, Before SARS Does

“One of our strategic objectives is to make it easy for taxpayers to comply with their tax obligations, and hard and costly for those who willfully […]
July 28, 2021

Your Tax Deadlines for August 2021

7 August – Monthly Pay-As-You-Earn (PAYE) submissions and payments 25 August – Value-Added Tax (VAT) manual submissions and payments 30 August – Corporate Income Tax (CIT) […]
June 29, 2021

How 67 Minutes on Mandela Day Can Change Our World and Benefit Your Business

“What counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived. It is what difference we have made to the lives of others that […]
June 29, 2021

Tax Filing Season 2021 Opened 1 July: Start Preparing!

 “The secret to getting ahead is getting started.” (Mark Twain) To avoid the last-minute rush, the risk of errors and omissions, and the cost of late […]
June 29, 2021

4 Ways to Measure Your Company’s Performance, Beyond Profit

“Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there” (Will Rogers) In the hostile business environment in which […]
June 29, 2021

What You Should Know About Airbnb and Tax

“All forms of rental income must be declared to SARS … We are … determined to make it hard and costly for non-compliant taxpayers not willing […]
June 29, 2021

Your Tax Deadlines for June 2021

7 June – Monthly Pay-As-You-Earn (PAYE) submissions and payments 25 June – Value-Added Tax (VAT) manual submissions and payments 29 June – Excise Duty payments 30 […]
May 27, 2021

Got Cryptocurrency? Here’s How Much SARS Wants…

The future of money is digital currency” (Bill Gates, Co-founder of Microsoft) Note: The risks and consequences of willfully or negligently failing to make full and […]
May 27, 2021

Youth Day: Why Our Young People Are So Important to Your Business

“If [business is] not listening to the youth, they are not listening to their future competitors, employees, or customers” (Wadia Ait Hamza, head of Global Shapers […]
May 27, 2021

How SMMEs Can Benefit Financially from the Fourth Industrial Revolution

“Digital is the main reason just over half of the companies on the Fortune 500 have disappeared since the year 2000” (CEO of Accenture, Pierre Nanterme) With […]
May 27, 2021

8 Tips for Marketing Your Business on Instagram

“You are what you share” (Charles Leadbeater, We Think: The Power of Mass Creativity) Instagram is a popular photo and video-sharing social media platform with over […]
May 27, 2021

Your Tax Deadlines for June 2021

7 June – Monthly Pay-As-You-Earn (PAYE) submissions and payments 25 June – Value-Added Tax (VAT) manual submissions and payments 29 June – Excise Duty payments 30 […]
April 28, 2021

Uncertain, Costly Power Supply: How to Mitigate Your Risk

“The more that energy costs, the less economic activity there can be” (Robert Zubrin) It has been 13 long years since we first experienced load shedding […]
April 28, 2021

A Basic Guide to PAYE and Four Common Mistakes

“The point to remember is that what the government gives it must first take away” John S. Coleman If it weren’t for the PAYE system, which […]
April 28, 2021

POPIA and Your Business: A Practical 5-Step Action Plan to Implement Now

“By failing to prepare you are preparing to fail” (Benjamin Franklin) The media is awash with warnings about the dangers of not complying with POPIA (the […]
April 28, 2021

Where does Fairness Belong in Your Business and Why Should You Care?

Many decisions are made on the basis of careful research and considerations about a variety of issues. Not all these deliberations will necessarily turn out to […]
April 28, 2021

Your Tax Deadlines for May 2021

7 May – Monthly Pay-As-You-Earn (PAYE) submissions and payments 25 May – Value-Added Tax (VAT) manual submissions and payments 28 May – Excise Duty payments 31 […]