A free quarterly publication from TBL Accounting
What changed in SA tax, payroll and filings, what it costs you, and what we’d do.
We are business people who happen to be accountants. Every item follows the same three steps, so you can tell in a minute whether it matters to you.
Eight quarters, from Q4 2024 to Q3 2026. Earlier editions were compiled in October 2026 from public sources, and each item links to them.
The digital VAT model consultation, draft 2026 tax bills, the interim payroll reconciliation, trust filing season, a higher SARS interest rate, and the dates ahead to…
SARS applies the R2.3m threshold before it is law, the 2025 VAT rise is formally switched off, annual payroll and COIDA windows, and the 2026 filing season.
A higher VAT registration and turnover tax threshold announced, the R20bn tax rise dropped, a new minimum wage, bigger CGT exclusions announced, and a plan to double the…
The Medium-Term Budget, bills on premises inspections and loss ring-fencing, SARS interest, CIPC checklist warnings, South Africa leaving the grey list, and UK dividend…
A draft tax administration bill, the 2025 filing season, the interim payroll reconciliation, CIPC beneficial ownership, and lower SARS interest.
The VAT reversal, a Budget with no bracket relief, wider payroll incentives, the 2025 filing season, and what SARB’s new circulars mean if you are leaving South Africa.
A Budget that proposed VAT at 15.5% (later withdrawn), unadjusted tax brackets, a new minimum wage, falling SARS interest, and the new IFRS for SMEs.
SARS penalties for missed filing, the interim payroll reconciliation, new trust-loan and VAT rules, CIPC mass deregistration, and the UK’s end of non-dom status.
Sources first: SARS, CIPC, National Treasury, the Government Gazette and, for South Africans in the UK, HMRC and GOV.UK. Each item is dated and linked. We label what is proposed and what is law. When something is announced and later reversed, we say so. Items are checked against their sources before publication. Where we could not confirm a fact from a primary source, we left it out.
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