Tag | Budget analysis

Employees in South Africa can expect higher pay rises than workers worldwide over the next 12 months, according to a recent global survey. Although this [Read More]

Grant Thornton’s tax directory 2013 is an easy reference, pocket-sized overview of the South African tax system, incorporating announcements made in Minister Pravin Gordhan’s Budget [Read More]

This year’s Budget for 2013 highlights overall that there are no real changes to get us really excited and Treasury seems to be buttoning down [Read More]

Archive copies of previous Grant Thornton Budget tax data cards are available for download: Grant Thornton Budget 2013 tax data card Grant Thornton Budget 2012 [Read More]

Overall Willem Oberholzer, Grant Thornton Pretoria Tax Partner “Tax payers can breathe a sigh of relief because overall the status quo remains. Government seems to [Read More]

Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan’s assurances that the South African government would not spend more than it had budgeted scored a desperately needed goal for team [Read More]

Ongoing strike action, now spread way beyond the mining industry, will impact corporate profitability in South Africa. Beyond unemployment, this will reduce corporate tax collections, [Read More]

With the introduction of the new Dividends Tax (DT), which is effective from 1 April 2012, companies should be aware of the underlying compliance requirements [Read More]

The announcement in the Minster of Finance’s Budget Speech on 22 February 2012 that Dividends Tax (DT) would be introduced at a rate of 15% [Read More]

This article first appeared in Business Report on 23 February 2012 By Hylton Cameron, executive tax manager, Grant Thornton Johannesburg We all knew that paying [Read More]