Tax Clearance

Fake FDI tops global growth

Pope Francis this week exhorted the political leaders of Mauritius, known as a tax haven and enclave for shell companies, to promote policies that reduce income inequality and to…

Kevin Davie

5 min read

The number of international ETFs on the JSE has grown significantly in the last few years, giving investors a wide range of choices. (Photo: Hiram Alejandro Durán)

FOREIGN INVESTMENT

2 AUG 2019

Moving your money offshore: Is it time?

Investing offshore is a long-term game

Tehilla Niselow

6 min read

South Africans working in countries such as the United Arab Emirates and earning more than R1-million will have to pay more income tax than they were previously because of amendments to tax laws. (Duncan Chard/Bloomberg/Getty Images)

EXPATRIATES

31 MAY 2019

Treasury widens SA’s tax net

Despite outrage over its planned ‘expat tax’ amendments, the state says closing the personal income loophole is in line with international practice

Lynley Donnelly

8 min read

The Zimbabwean government, under President Emmerson Mnangagwa, has made steady strides towards change, which have already had a positive economic impact. (Photo: Reuters/Philimon Bulawayo)

CORPORATE TAX

9 NOV 2018

Transforming Zimbabwe to a Private Sector-Led Economy

The policy and institutional reforms proposed will shift perceptions – and the economy

Tamsin Oxford

6 min read

Public protector Thuli Madonsela has taken IEC chair Pansy Tlakula to task over a lease agreement.

CORRUPTION

4 OCT 2013

IEC row: Lease deal flouted regulations

The property company awarded a contract to lease office space to the IEC did not submit its tax clearance certificate, but got the job anyway.

Mmanaledi Mataboge
Verashni Pillay

3 min read