Constitutional Court Ruling – Domestic workers should get COID
The Constitutional Court have now ruled that it is unfair for domestic workers to be excluded from the Compensation Fund…
Newsletters & Articles
ETI – extra COVID claims lost if not made before the 31 August 2020 recon cycle
Editor’s note: We ran a number of articles in the past few months about the challenges with the Disaster Management…
Abuse of the Employment Tax Incentive Scheme
In conjunction with SAICA, the South African Institute of Tax (SAIT) urges its members to be cautious of structures created…
UIF TERS Audit
(Source: PAGSA) As you have all no doubt read in the media releases of 5 September, the Auditor General has…
Relaxation of the Validation Rules for Code 4587 – s10(1)(o) foreign income exemption
(Source: PAGSA; SARS) Background The Minister of Finance announced in the Budget Review on 26 February 2020 that the foreign…
Leave Pay, Notice Pay and Severance Pay – common calculation mistakes
Pay for leave, notice and severance is an area many employers don’t always get it right. The calculation of these…
Draft code of good practice – violence and sexual harassment
A draft code of good practice on the prevention and elimination of violence and harassment in the workplace was published…
How to deal with the abuse of sick leave
We have recently discovered a significant increase in cases of leave abuse within companies, more specifically, sick leave. The employee…
Do I need to submit a personal income tax return?
Please see below requirements/criteria to be met for individuals to submit an income tax return: (“if you answered yes to…
Domestic workers included in new COID Bill
On 10 September 2020 the Minister of Employment and Labour introduced the Compensation for Occupational Injuries and Diseases Amendment Bill…
Watch out – new potential rights and powers for SARS
The government in August published the Draft Taxation Laws Amendment Bill (TLAB) and Draft Tax Administration Laws Amendment Bill (TALAB)…
The ETI challenge – EMP501 reporting
In May we reported on the fact that most payroll systems had mis-calculated the Employment Tax Incentive (ETI) because the…