Biz Facility – Finsolve Group 21 Jul 2017 4:00 AM (8 years ago)
Biz Facility which forms part of the Finsolve Group provides comprehensive and efficient financial accountancy and tax self study training solutions to individuals, business owners, financial managers, business and corporate staff to assist in understanding how to effectively run business.
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Our Mission 9 Oct 2014 5:19 PM (11 years ago)
To provide value adding skills and tools through superior training and engagement that enables our clients to become more financially skilled.
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Our Vision 8 Oct 2014 5:16 PM (11 years ago)
To provide Practical Skills & Tools to Small and Medium sized Businesses and individuals, in order to Effectively Utilise Accounting Data to manage their business or area of operation, and to effectively manage their tax obligations, both personally and professionally.
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Biz Facility has provided ongoing training to staff of PEP, McDonalds, Woolworths, Standard Bank, Nedbank, Vodacom, Western Cape Government, Tshwane Government, Dept of Statistics, and many more.
In-house specialized financial training to staff requirements is also offered.
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Oil as a major risk to global growth 29 Mar 2012 12:28 PM (13 years ago)
Recent times have identified oil as a major risk to global growth if Middle East events were to get out of hand, pushing oil prices substantially higher and eroding real consumer incomes, a replay of 2011 (when prices rose $30 during the Arab Spring and Libyan Interlude) but only much bigger (fears of $30 to $100 spikes).
Seeing that the global oil demand/supply balance is in any case very tight today, the slightest disturbances can intensify the upside drift in oil prices.
It is not, however, as if risk only favours higher oil prices. For counteractions are underway aimed at easing the global demand/supply balance, hopefully allowing oil prices to drift lower and taking pressure off global consumers everywhere.
The focus is on Iran and the US, with politics apparently central to what is underway.
Europe and the US are steadily intensifying their isolation of Iran, aiming her to change the nature of her nuclear ambitions. To this end pressure is being exerted through trade sanctions, using the global banking system to gain leverage over Iranian oil trading.
As Iranian oil exports fall off and rumours of war intensify, however, it tends to worsen the global demand/supply balance, putting upward pressure on oil prices. Not only does this compensate Iran for lost export volumes, but it puts up petrol prices around the world, which especially in the US is inconveniencing President Obama in his re-election attempt.
The idea of trade sanctions is that Iran changes tack, reducing the risk of unilateral actions in the region while President Obama would like an improving US economy to improve his chances of re-election.
To this end a number of machinations appear to have been set in motion to ensure exactly those outcomes.
It isn’t publicly known what exactly transpired between the US and Israel during recent high level talks, but the gist appears to be to give sanctions and diplomacy a chance, with absolutely nothing allowed to jeopardise the Obama re-election effort during the critical months leading up to November.
Having presumably neutralised the critical warlike angle, it was time to neutralise the economic fallout from Iranian sanctions.
To this end both the UK and Persian Gulf oil producers appear to have been pressed into service, with the aim of influencing oil market realities and perceptions during the critical months leading up to November.
The UK turned out to be game to perhaps in conjunction with the US release some strategic oil reserves during the coming summer.
Though the IEA doesn’t now see the need for such action, and prefers to keep these global strategic stocks for genuine emergencies, one can see without trying too hard that petrol topping $4 per gallon in the run up to the November US Presidential election does constitute an emergency of some sort, at least to Mr Obama.
What’s in it for Mr Cameron isn’t quite clear, aside of the limitless gratitude of a two-term Mr Obama, which presumably could come in handy as a strategic reserve in its own right some time, at least to the UK.
Anyway, the two gents appeared in agreement last week about perhaps releasing strategic oil reserves over the summer and already telling the world now, so that the oil market can presumably incorporate this in its calculations of demand and supply (“down, boys, down!!”).
But it hasn’t stopped there. All of a sudden Saudi has become proactive on the grand scale, working overtime to get old oilfields back on stream to boost its potential production (and global reserve buffer) while overnight chartering 11 supper tankers capable of moving some 22 million barrels of crude out of harms way and nearer global customers in the West and East by about midyear and all this exciting information also already now being offered to watching markets.
But apparently it doesn’t stop even there. For there is a Gulf Co-operating Council where all the great and good in the Persian Gulf Game are represented. Most of them are apparently also considering upping their game, further boosting the apparent oil supply flows this year and increasing the global oil buffer.
Is this the Arab contribution to ensure Iranian sanctions will be successful without penalising Mr Obama?
In other words, it is in the region’s long term interest to get Iran to change its way short of a possibly disastrous war going wrong, and to this end oil prices need not be so high as where they are today ($125), with $100 a much more attractive proposition, fine for the major producers in terms of their fiscal needs, productive viz-a-viz Iran and assisting in getting US petrol prices closer to $3 rather $4 per gallon (and taking the heat off the US economy and Mr Obama)?
It all looks a very concerted effort to get oil prices to behave in a prescribed manner these next seven months, which just happens to coincide with a slight dip in Chinese growth, and this also making it easier to shape oil price expectations?
It just might all be coincidence, but there seems to be a Great Game underway which, even if it doesn’t quite succeed in convincing Iran to change direction, at least these next seven months keeps war at bay, the nose tightening around Iran and US petrol prices subsiding rather than ratcheting up, thereby also giving US growth and Mr Obama a chance in 2012.
And if all this doesn’t work to do the magic on Iran in pre-November 2012, one shudders to think what wink-wink transpired about Xmas or 2013.
Anyway, instead of being on our way to $130-$180 shortly, is oil actually going to ease off for a couple of months nearer $100-$110, a copycat slide of what transpired in 2011 once the 1Q2011 heat went out of the Arab Spring?
If oil drops 10%-20% these next few months, do allow that global inflation will be even less threatening and growth turning out to have upside potential, certainly in the West, but also the East.
It might boost global financial markets yet more as risk on continues to intensify.
That would presumably be friendly for the Rand in terms of incoming capital flows.
Falling oil price and firmer Rand would reverse some of the terrible petrol price increases of recent months. Not only Mr Obama would benefit, but Mr Zuma could also, come December, though all this has hardly been engineered for his benefit, or ours, of course, for we don’t figure on anyone’s agenda.
But it would have been fun if we had. That, though, is reserved for superpowers with a sense of chess and carrying a genuine big stick.
One wonders how Iran sees all of this?
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Taxation implications from the Finance Minister’s speech on the 22nd February 23 Feb 2012 5:31 AM (13 years ago)
TAX Highlights – 2012 /13: Budget speech 22 February 2012
The following are the main taxation implications from the Finance Minister’s speech on the 22nd February.
- 1. Tax thresholds:
Have increased as follows:
- < 65 years of age: R 63,556
- > 65 and < 75 years of age: R 99,056
- > 75 years of age: R 110,889
In other words, any taxable income of less than the above thresholds will result in the individual not being liable for any taxation.
- Dividend withholding tax (DWT):
Effective 1 April 2012, at a rate of 15% of dividends declared. (Expectation was 10%).
- Replaces STC (Secondary Tax on Companies)
- Pension funds and other financial intemediatories are exempt from DWT
- Payable at end of the month after the month in which dividend was declared
- STC credit carry forward limited to 3 years from effective date
- 3. Capital Gains Tax (CGT):
Increase in CGT by the increase in Inclusion rates, as follows:
- Individuals and special trusts: 33.3% (previously 25%)
- Legal entities and other trusts: 66.6% (previously 50%)
Other changes:
- Effective 1 March 2012
- Basic exemption increased to R 30,000 – individuals only
- Primary residence exemption increased to R 2m of gain.
- 4. Medical credits:
Medical credits will replace medical deductions, effective from 1 March 2012.
- Credits are deducted from tax payable, while the previous scheme, medical deductions were deducted from taxable income.
- Out of pocked expenses are deductable, subject to the 7,5% threshold – no change.
- 5. Contributions to pensions funds etc
Contributions made to Pension, Provident and Retirement funds will be tax deductable subject to the following:
- Maximum deduction is set at 22.5% and 27.5%, for natural persons aged ,45 years and >= 45 years respectively, on the higher of employment or taxable income.
- Annual deductions will be limited to R250,000 and R 300,000 as per the above age groups.
- Effective 1 March 2014
- 6. Small Business Corporations: SBC’s
- Tax free threshold increased from R 59,750 to R 63,556.
- Taxable income up to R 350,000 (previously R 300,000) taxed at 7% (previously 10%).
- Effective for year ended on or after 1 April 2012
- 7. Acquisitions
- Consideration being given to limiting interest deduction, to a ceiling based on EBITDA, to limit tax deductibility of excessive debt financing.
- 8. National Health Insurance
- Scheme will be implemented in 2012/13 phased in over 10 years.
- To be funded by possibly:
- Vat increase
- Payroll tax on employers
- Surcharge on taxable income of individuals
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SARS Tax Returns 7 Jul 2011 11:43 PM (14 years ago)
SARS Tax Returns – The Season is Officially open
Hi Everyone
Please note that the above tax season is now officially open – and to avoid the rush, I suggest that you begin liaising with your tax practitioner to assist in completing your tax returns, both personal, as well as that of your company / business.
Please note that provisional tax returns for the 2012 year, are also due at the end of August.
We do offer SARS tax returns services and present a full day Personal Income Tax Workshop, so please contact me if you are in need of a tax practitioner or for details of my workshop.
See below from SARS, as well as our Income Tax Workshop dates :
Friday 1 July 2011 marks the beginning of Tax Season 2011. As from this date you can submit your income tax return to the
South African Revenue Service (SARS).
As an eFiler you receive your customised return on your eFiling profile after you log on to your personal profile at www.sarsefiling.co.za If you have forgotten your login and password simply click on the question mark icon from the login page and you will be able to reset your login and password.
- File your return early: Don’t wait for the last minute to submit your tax return. The earlier you do it, the less congested the site and shorter the queues at our branches – and the quicker you will receive any refund you may have due. And don’t worry if you owe SARS money – you get until the very end of Tax Season to pay it, interest free!
- Don’t just save your return – submit it! eFiling allows you to work on your return and then to save your work until you are ready to submit. But your return has not been sent to SARS until you hit the “submit” button and your profile is updated to show the return has been submitted.
- Be honest about the information you give SARS: It is a criminal offence to fail to declare all your income on your tax return as well as to misrepresent your allowable deductions. Make sure you are completely honest on your return … and avoid delays in processing your return and/or further investigation and action by SARS.
- Have your supporting documents on hand: When completing your return you may need to refer to some of the supporting documents mentioned below. However, you do NOT need to submit them. But you must keep them safely in your possession for at least five years in case SARS needs access to them in future. These include documents such as your IRP5/IT3(a) employee tax certificates, IT3(b) interest certificates, medical aid certificates and receipts, pension fund and retirement annuity certificates, and logbook of business travel expenses.
- And don’t miss the deadline: This is really important. If you submit your return after the deadline you will face an administrative penalty of at least R250 per month that your return is outstanding!
The SARS Tax Returns Deadlines:
If you are a non-provisional taxpayer who uses eFiling to submit your return, you have until Friday 25 November 2011.
Provisional taxpayers who file via eFiling have until Tuesday 31 January 2012 to submit their returns.
South African Revenue Service
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New Publications from Bizfacility 27 Jun 2011 8:01 AM (14 years ago)
BizFacility has just added 3 New Documents to our Publications page:
- Guide to the Companies Act
- Guide to the Memorandum of Incorporation
- Directors Guide 2011
All 3 Documents are from Kilgetty
To download the guides go to our Publications Page
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Cape Town Income Tax Workshop 23 Jun 2011 8:38 AM (14 years ago)
REMINDER FOR BOOKING
– Please confirm your booking by the closing deadline below to secure your seat !
BIZ FACILITY Accounting & Tax Training INCOME TAX PRACTICAL WORKSHOP
BELLVILLE, Cape Town – Monday 27 th June
WORKSHOP FEE : R 950.00 per delegate ( includes refreshments & lunch )
NB – For your seat, notes and catering to be confirmed and arranged, BOOKINGS CLOSE end of business day on FRIDAY 24 th June – If attending the attached enrolment form and proof of payment must please be submitted as confirmation of your booking !
We look forward to seeing you at our INCOME TAX Workshop.
Kind Regards,
Gary Garbutt – National Sales Manager
Biz Facility Accounting & Tax Training
Cell : 082 451 6343
Office : 021 913 6099
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