By addressing minor inconsistencies upfront, taxpayers may avoid verification delays and receive refunds sooner where applicable.
This article is made available with the kind permission of Miller’s Incorporated. With estate planning becoming more sophisticated, more and more trusts are being established. Simultaneously, divorces are increasing by around 8.6% per […]
There appears to be a major miscommunication between certain employers and their staff, judging by the volumes of questions we receive. “My employer said I must write the RE 1.” In 99% of these […]
The ASISA Board approved the implementation of the ASISA Standard on Effective Annual Cost (EAC) in August 2015. The EAC comprises four separate components into which various charges are allocated. Investment Management Charge The […]
Market volatility is something we are all accustomed to, but recent events have made investors more jittery than usual. China’s ‘Black Monday’ wiped hundreds of billions off the world’s financial markets last month […]
Hierdie artikel word gepubliseer met die goedgunstige toestemming van Van der Spuy en Vennote. Die munisipaliteit het my in kennis gestel dat hulle my elektrisiteitvoorsiening gaan afsny omdat daar uitstaande betalings ten opsigte […]
We recently advised readers of an extremely good offer (R199 only) to get their Promotion of Access to Information manuals in place. Unless we see yet another extension, the deadline is 31 December 2015. Even […]
During the recent SAIFM conference, the FSB provided input on its views on feedback received from the industry to the 55 proposals contained in the discussion document. There was general support for the […]
This weekend sees the last of the pool matches, although most of the results will be important for statistical purposes only, apart from the Australia/Wales and France/Ireland matches. From a realistic perspective, the […]
Laura du Preez wrote in Personal Finance on 12 September 2015: Providers of primary healthcare plans that may soon be disallowed say that low cost benefit medical scheme options will not cater for people using […]
The dilemma facing financial services practices who are not obliged to appoint a compliance officer were highlighted recently by a rather frantic call from a one-person FSP after being informed by the FSB […]
A presentation by the FSB at the second SAIFM Regulatory Conference covered some very interesting agenda points Mention is made of four shortcomings of the current regulatory approach: It is said to be […]
The First National Bank (FNB)/Bureau for Economic Research (BER) consumer confidence index (CCI) rebounded by 10 points from its lowest level in almost 15 years to a reading of -5 during Q3. While […]
Misleading advertising will receive a lot of attention in future regulation. A recent media release by the Council for Medical Schemes provides a timely warning to us to make sure that we do […]
Legalbrief Today reported as follows on an article in Business Day: Institutions have cited the prospect of a spike in the cost of compliance as a major issue that might arise from proposed […]
Life is fickle and unpredictable. This statement is born out again by a recent Ombud determination concerning the switching of life cover from one assurer to another. The clients, both husband and wife, […]
Click here for some background music while you read this. Much as I love Scotland and its people, I pray fervently that the answer to the question “When will we see your likes […]
President Edgar Lungu delivered the state of the nation address on Friday, September 18. The president stressed the need for economic diversification and to alleviate power capacity constraints via focused government infrastructural spending […]
