RANTS AND CENTS: Thinking that simply implementing a tax will reach some sustainability target or health benefit in a few years is an absolute fallacy, writes Ruan ...
OPINION: South African consumers have become so over-indebted that any additional credit lines are starting to run very thin, but not all hope should be lost as ...
RANTS AND CENTS: I still have so many questions around the South African Reserve Bank’s year-long investigation and report into the controversial Phala Phala scandal, ...
RANTS AND CENTS: Act against those financial brokers and companies who give poor advice to customers based on their own pockets and not the customer’s needs or interests, ...
RANTS AND CENTS: The Board of Healthcare Funders was successful in its application to the High Court in Pretoria this week to overturn the moratorium that prohibits ...
RANTS AND CENTS: While debt review is an option out of a tight financial situation, consumers should be warned that the process, duration and costs involved can ...
OPINION: Experts say the new six tax on vaping products could have the perverse effect of driving vapers to illicit products, in much the same way the government’s ...
Rants and Cents: Research shows that identity theft has grown by more than 300% between 2021 and 2022. Additionally, cases involving money muling have increased ...
OPINION: South Africa’s savings rate is so bad and far below its emerging market peers, that it is actually considered one of the lowest in the world at only 0. ...
OPINION: Tax Freedom Day is a reference to a day that a country has earned enough money to pay for running its government in a financial year – it is estimated to ...
The increases in municipal rates and tariffs are putting immense pressure on property owners and tenants, with little relief in sight. These above-inflation increases, ...
The existing and expanding tax bases has made it possible to provide some relief to the sugar industry in imposing a further increase in the health promotion levy ...
It was all fun and games, when it became known to me that the South African Revenue Service (Sars) would allow me to deduct all my home office expenses from my income ...
Organised labour has been lashing out at the Department of Employment and Labour, calling its Unemployment Insurance Fund ‘a slush fund for corrupt elements’ inside ...
The Medium-Term Budget Policy Statement revealed an improved budget deficit for the first half of the 2022/23 financial year as a result of better-than-expected ...
ALMOST a year after the Financial Action Task Force identified substantial limitations to South Africa’s Anti-Money Laundering and Combating the Financing of Terrorism ...
OPINION: The newly imposed anti-dumping duties will drive up tyre prices and, given the importance of tyre costs to the transport industry, will manifest in higher ...
OPINION: South Africa has a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to harness its competitive advantages and create cannabis brands that can take their rightful place on ...
The SA Sugar Association has issued a notice to increase the notional price of refined and brown sugar for the purposes of determining the price of sugarcane.