Cybercriminals ramp up their attacks on tax practitioners

SARS responds to reports of hackers accessing practitioners’ eFiling profiles, removing clients, and changing banking details.

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Super 15 Predictions a Tough Call

T20 World Cup To join us in the fun prediction pool, please go to the Moonstone pool Tref & Trap. The pool code cedeveil, and the tournament is called World T20. Cheetahs vs […]

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Treasury Proposals to Promote Savings

A media release on Friday sheds more light on these planned initiatives by the government to supplement the current interest income exemption with tax free savings accounts: This paper lays the basis for […]

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Update on Retirement Reforms

The 2014 Budget announcement contained more detailed information on where we currently are on the road to extensive reforms of the retirement industry. A media release by National Treasury on 14 March 2014 […]

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Super 15 Log Review after Round 5

Super 15 Log Review after Round 5 We are roughly one third through the round robin section of the competition. While those at the top will regard complacency as their major threat, others […]

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Moonstone’s Compliance Solution

There are a wide variety of compliance service providers in the financial services industry, which makes it difficult to compare apples with apples. We list below the services offered by Moonstone, and a […]

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Asisa Feedback on Budget Speech Comment

From the February 2014 edition of the Asisa’s Dispatches: A number of members and stakeholders have asked us to provide context to the announcement by Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan as part of his […]

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Bruising Battles Ahead

T20 World Cup This competition sees the top twelve national cricket sides come together for two fast and furious weeks of T20 cricket action. To join us in the fun prediction pool, please […]

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Foreign FSP Registration

Foreign FSP Registration A Foreign representative is recorded on the Registrar’s database using his/her passport number as identification. Unfortunately, each time a passport is renewed, a new passport number is issued. The Registrar’s […]

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Compliance Monitoring

This topic is covered in FAIS Newsletter 16, published on 13 December 2013. It is of particular importance to FSPs who tend to think that complying with the FAIS Act and the General […]

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Withholding of Pension Withdrawal Benefits

A recent determination by the Pension Funds Adjudicator concerns an employer’s decision to instruct the administrator of the pension fund to withhold the complainant’s withdrawal benefits after terminating his service. In their response […]

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Old Dogs and New Tricks

Old Dogs and New Tricks – Our marketing colleague, Divan Kleynhans, mentions that it was a good weekend for the Old Boys Club to put their hands up. Victor Matfield, Schalk Burger and the […]

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Moonstone Training Services

Moonstone Intellectual Capital (Pty) Ltd is an INSETA accredited Training Service provider. We provide training solutions for FSPs in all major licence categories. As part of our holistic approach, we conduct a thorough […]

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Verification of Qualifications

Prospective employers need to verify information supplied by applicants. There are various sources where such information can be obtained. FAIS related credits and queries Please visit the INSETA website on www.inseta.org.za. Click on […]

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