By Pieter Bensch, Executive Vice-President at Sage Africa & Middle East
Sage welcomes the news that government has decided to ease lockdown restrictions, allowing small businesses such as restaurants, travel agents and hairdressers to reopen.
It comes after the announcement by President Cyril Ramaphosa easing level 3 lockdown restrictions further, allowing over 500,000 more people to…
Most South African small and medium businesses are struggling to operate and pay their employees during the national lockdown imposed by government to slow the spread of COVID-19. Rob Cooper, chairman of the Payroll Authors Group of South Africa, and host of the Sage Annual Payroll Tax Seminar, led a recent webinar about how employers…
By Yolandi Esterhuizen, registered tax practitioner & Compliance Manager, Sage Africa & Middle East
The 2020/1 Budget Speech from Finance Minister Tito Mboweni contained few earth-shattering announcements from a payroll perspective, and we are still waiting for clarity on key issues such as the National Health Insurance (NHI) and annuitisation of retirement funds. Nonetheless, there were…