ARTICLE COURTESY OF LDP Tel: 021 888 5600 | Fax: 021 888 5697/8 e-mail : info@ldp.co.za | Web site : www.ldp.co.za 10 Helderberg Street, Stellenbosch, 7600 7 May – Monthly PAYE submissions and payments 25 May – VAT manual submissions and payments 28 May – Excise Duty payments 29 May – VAT electronic submissions and payments 29 May – CIT Provisional Tax

ARTICLE COURTESY OF LDP Tel: 021 888 5600 | Fax: 021 888 5697/8 e-mail : info@ldp.co.za | Web site : www.ldp.co.za 10 Helderberg Street, Stellenbosch, 7600 We read about Eskom staff having to undergo lifestyle audits so that corruption can be identified and stamped out. SARS have been conducting lifestyle audits since 2007. These audits are conducted when SARS suspects that the taxpayer is

ARTICLE COURTESY OF LDP Tel: 021 888 5600 | Fax: 021 888 5697/8 e-mail : info@ldp.co.za | Web site : www.ldp.co.za 10 Helderberg Street, Stellenbosch, 7600 “Prediction is very difficult, especially if it's about the future” (Niels Bohr) Pandemics kill more people than wars – the introduction of the Black Death plague led to 14th Century Europe losing 40% of its population within two

ARTICLE COURTESY OF LDP Tel: 021 888 5600 | Fax: 021 888 5697/8 e-mail : info@ldp.co.za | Web site : www.ldp.co.za 10 Helderberg Street, Stellenbosch, 7600 In this brave new world of COVID-19, many people are working from home. Even after there is a cure for the virus, this trend will likely continue. Researchers at Harvard University have come up with some good ways

ARTICLE COURTESY OF LDP Tel: 021 888 5600 | Fax: 021 888 5697/8 e-mail : info@ldp.co.za | Web site : www.ldp.co.za 10 Helderberg Street, Stellenbosch, 7600 There are significant obligations placed on directors by the Companies Act and personal and criminal liabilities if they fail to meet these obligations. As a director you will no doubt be focusing on critical issues like keeping your

ARTICLE COURTESY OF LDP Tel: 021 888 5600 | Fax: 021 888 5697/8 e-mail : info@ldp.co.za | Web site : www.ldp.co.za 10 Helderberg Street, Stellenbosch, 7600 “Never let a good crisis go to waste” (Winston Churchill) Globally, the COVID-19 coronavirus has spread panic amongst societies and markets. Businesses are suffering their most challenging times since the 2008 Global Financial Crisis. This is the time for

ARTICLE COURTESY OF LDP Tel: 021 888 5600 | Fax: 021 888 5697/8 e-mail : info@ldp.co.za | Web site : www.ldp.co.za 10 Helderberg Street, Stellenbosch, 7600 The President, telling the nation that “We will prioritise the lives and livelihoods of our people above all else, and will use all of the measures that are within our power to protect them from the economic

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Taxpayers were preparing for once again being squeezed in 2020, but we have been pleasantly surprised as we have been given a myriad of tax concessions in this budget. In fact, the average taxpayer will be over 5% better off than in 2019/2020.  The Finance Minister has decided that taxpayers have borne

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