Accountant for Retail & Wholesale Businesses in Pretoria π
Retail and wholesale businesses live and die by two things: stock and margins π And both are notoriously hard to keep on top of when you’re moving high volumes, managing suppliers, running a point-of-sale system, and watching cash flow like a hawk. Generic accounting doesn’t cut it for a stock-heavy business. You need someone who […]
Directors’ Tax: How Company Owners Should Pay Themselves πΌ
If you own and run a company, you face a question employees never have to think about: how do you actually pay yourself? πΌ It sounds simple, but getting it wrong quietly costs directors thousands in unnecessary tax every year, or lands them in trouble with SARS. Salary? Dividends? Director’s fees? A mix? And what […]
55+ and Selling Your Business?
The Enhanced R2.7 Million Tax Break You Need to Know π·οΈ If you’ve spent decades building a business and you’re starting to think about selling up or retiring, there’s a tax break you really need to know about, and it just got significantly more generous π·οΈ In the 2026 Budget, National Treasury raised the small […]
VAT Modernisation Is Coming β οΈ
What SARS’s Plans Mean for Your Business… Big changes are coming to VAT in South Africa, possibly the biggest since VAT was introduced more than three decades ago π In August 2026, SARS released its VAT Modernisation Consultation Paper for public comment, setting out a vision to drag VAT administration into the digital, real-time era. […]
23 October Deadline: Your Last-Chance for Tax Filing β°
The clock is running out β° If you haven’t filed your tax return yet, this is your reminder that the individual (non-provisional) filing season deadline is 23 October 2026,Β and SARS is not in a forgiving mood about late submissions. The demand has been so high that SARS even opened some service centres on Saturdays to […]
How to switch accountants
How to Switch Accounting Firms in South Africa (Without the Headache) π Most people stay with a bad accountant far longer than they should π¬ Not because they’re happy, but because switching feels risky. What if my records get lost? Maybe SARS gets confused? Is it a huge admin nightmare? So they stay, quietly frustrated, […]
SARS Third-party Data
SARS Already Knows More Than You Think: Third-Party Data & Auto-Assessments in 2026 π΅οΈ Ever wondered how SARS manages to auto-assess millions of taxpayers, or how it seems to know about income you haven’t mentioned yet? π΅οΈ The answer is a quiet, powerful engine most people never think about: third-party data. And right now it’s […]
SARS Compliance 2026: A conscious crackdown on small business
SARS Is Cracking Down: The Compliance Changes Every SME Must Know for 2026/27 π If it feels like SARS has become faster, smarter and a lot harder to slip past, you’re not imagining it π The South African Revenue Service has spent the past few years modernising aggressively: more data, more automation, tighter validations and […]
EMP501 reconciliation: No more Invalid Employee Tax Numbers
The New SARS PAYE Rule: Why Invalid Employee Tax Numbers Will Get Your Reconciliation Rejected π« If you run payroll, there’s a SARS change this year that can stop your reconciliation dead, and a lot of employers are about to find out the hard way π« The safety net is gone. SARS now strictly validates […]
VAT Deregistration in 2026
The VAT threshold jumped to R2.3 million in 2026. Should your business deregister?
