DTC recommendations may see Trusts receive a full frontal tax lobotomy
Matthew Lester looks at the implications of some of the Davis Tax Committee recommendations around estate duty, especially around taxation of trusts.
Davis Tax Committee
Prof. Matthew Lester’s annual lecture on SA’s Budget
Professor Matthew Lester delivers his annual Budget Speech lecture, taking us through the all of the complex issues that came out of Finance Minister Nhlanhla Nene’s speech last week.
Warning from Keith Engel: SA seeing “beginnings of a tax revolt”
In this interview, 14 year veteran of SA Treasury Keith Engel applies his mind to why tax morality is sliding and what could happen from here.
Mini budget: Nene talks of tax reform
Tax changes are likely to be introduced in February when Finance Minister Nhlanhla Nene tables his first full budget, he signalled on Wednesday in his medium-term policy statement.
Matthew Lester: My Open Letter to Mark Shuttleworth
SA needs the Mark Shuttleworth example of brains and energy as the catalyst to push internet education to viral status. We need to make it hip2B@school.
Matthew Lester: Agric land switched to game farming coming back to bite SA
By Matthew Lester There is not much fun to be had when attending farmers’ days anymore. For years these functions used to be all about the droughts, floods or pests, lousy market prices and increasing fuel prices. We could generally drink out a solution. But now the land claims have opened up again and there … Read more
Prof Matthew Lester expands on new Davis Tax Committee report focusing on SME’s
A very large portion of the South African economic sector is informal, if small businesses don’t fall into the ‘informal’ category then it is likely that they will fit into the category of small to medium sized enterprises (SME). From a current economic standpoint, the country desperately needs SME’s to spring up in true entrepreneurial … Read more
Matthew Lester on SA’s Davis Tax Commission
A country’s tax system speaks volumes of its governmental, social and political standing. South Africa’s tax system is often the subject of multiple angles of scrutiny, as is any tax office in any democracy. The difference is that, in some country’s the critique is based on positive feedback. The South African Revenue Service (SARS) is … Read more