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Target your customers and hit the business bull’s-eye

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Gerhard Visagie of Exceed UK discusses the importance of knowing your customers, identifying your best customers and increasing your chances of success.

Accredited training in the workplace

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MBAT (Madiba Bay Accountancy Training) is an accredited training provider offering short courses and learnerships, mainly in the financial sector. Its skills development programme is ideal for employees working with basic accounting on a daily basis.

Planning for business success

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Running a business without a business plan is like driving blindfolded. Your chances of reaching your destination are slim.

Unit trust retirement annuities

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No initial product fees and a simple flat annual administration fee make the new unit trust retirement annuities (RA) one of the most cost-efficient ways to save for retirement.

New tax changes reduce burden on small businesses

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A ‘very small business’ as defined in the new Draft Revenue Laws Amendment Bill – a business with a turnover that does not exceed R1 million – may in future opt to be taxed on gross turnover rather than on taxable income.

Disclosure of exchange control violations

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In addition to the Voluntary Disclosure Programme available to tax payers – the so-called Tax VDP – the Minister of Finance announced a voluntary disclosure programme for regularising the exchange control affairs of current and former South African residents.

The Brummeria decision

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The decision of the Supreme Court of Appeal in the case of SARS v Brummeria Renaissance (Pty) Ltd and others (2007 SCA 99, 69 SATC 205) is well known.

Diversification adds value

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The current bear market is turning into a once-in-a-few-lifetimes event! Most economic modelling has failed due to the extremity of this event, which shows significant similarities to the 1929 and 1960s periods.

Hersien polisse en verlig druk

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Indien kontantvloeiprobleme u slapelose nagte besorg, kan u dit oorweeg om u polisse te herstruktureer om uitgawes te besnoei.

Was dit Trevor Manuel se laaste begrotingsrede?

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Soos verwag is, het mnr. Trevor Manuel ’n neutrale begrotingsrede gelewer. Gegewe die wêreldwye ekonomiese krisis en die huidige politieke omstandighede in Suid-Afrika, kon die begrotingsrede nie mense se verbeelding aangryp nie.