Increase your chances of getting a refund from SARS!

If you derive your income from salaried employment and wish to utilise the tax laws in South Africa to minimise your tax liability and maximise your refund from the South African Revenue Services (SARS) upon filing your annual tax return, this book is for you. How To Get A SARS Refund will help you understand why you are taxed the amount that you are, and will assist you in reducing your tax liability. It will also help you to navigate your way through the annual income return (ITR12) for individuals as you complete your return via eFiling.

Topics covered include the basics of understanding individual tax, deductions from taxable income and medical tax credits. The guide also deals with the following types of taxes a salaried taxpayer may become liable for:

• Dividends tax;
• Tax on interest earned;
• Capital gains tax; and
• Provisional tax.

With plenty of informative, practical examples, How To Get A SARS Refund sets out in a simple, effective way how to get the most bang for your buck from the taxman.

Investing overseas can be a very intimidating, even scary, subject. Even though many of us would love to invest overseas, we have limited information on how and where to place our money. This book will demystify global investing by providing novice investors with practical guidelines on how to invest overseas while helping them to avoid the pitfalls.

Global Investing Made Easy covers all the main aspects that a non-financial person should know before embarking on a global investment journey and will be helpful to investors across the globe.

People of all ages and levels of wealth will benefit from the practical and easy-to-understand information required to invest in the international markets, proving that financial freedom is possible for anybody.

This book will assist people who will soon retire, or who have already retired, to understand how tax works in relation to their retirement so that retirees can make informed, tax-efficient decisions regarding their retirement savings. It will help them to get more out of their retirement savings, as well as expose the pitfalls that they need to look out for to avoid nasty surprises.

The book will also provide guidance on the methods available to retirees to reduce their tax liability to ensure that they pay the least amount of tax legally possible so that they can put more money into their back pocket. It explains how to effectively utilise certain tax exemptions and make the most out of tax credits, which are only available to persons over the age of 65 years.

In addition, it will explain how retirees can access a possible tax refund, and how other types of income that they may earn to supplement their pension, such as rental income and dividends, are taxed.

The questions are based on the Income Tax Act 1962, Tax Administration Act 2011, VAT Act 1991, Estate Duty Act 1955 and the Transfer Duty Act 1949, incorporating recent amendments.

This book was written with the specific purpose of combining in one concise volume the provisions of the Income Tax Act 58 of 1962 as it applies to individuals. The work is aimed at undergraduate students. It is updated annually and contains the latest legislation.

This book has been compiled to assist students at tertiary institutions in South Africa with their studies in auditing.

This is a collection of graded questions on auditing. Separate solutions are available.

The graded questions in this book are based on all tax legislation covered in courses on tax at an under- and postgraduate level in South Africa. It is updated annually with the latest legislation, and solutions are available.

This workbook has been written for students to provide the maximum examples of questions on most tax topics.
It is an annual publication and up-to-date with the latest legislation. Separate solutions are available.

This handbook is based on the educational requirements of the South African Institute of Chartered Accountants for entry into Initial Test of Competence Examination of SAICA.

The objective of this book is to simplify the understanding and application of tax legislation in a South African context for both students and general tax practitioners. This work is updated annually with the latest legislation.

How to Get a SARS Refund is for people who derive their income from salaried employment and wish to utilise the tax laws in South Africa to maximise their refund from the South African Revenue Service (SARS) upon filing their annual tax return. The new edition contains updated examples with the latest tax rates to illustrate the amount of tax that the reader will pay on their salary from 1 March 2021.

The book also provides updates on changes to tax legislation relevant to salaried individuals so that the reader can stay up to date with what has changed and understand how this affects their ability to reduce their tax liability and increase their chances of getting a refund from SARS, as well as helping readers to navigate their way through the annual income return (ITR12) for individuals as they complete the return via eFiling.

Topics include the basics of understanding individual tax, deductions from taxable income, medical tax credits and individual tax. It also deals with the types of taxes a salaried taxpayer may become liable for, including dividends tax, tax on interest earned, capital gains tax and provisional tax.

How to Get a SARS Refund is a simple, easy-to-understand guide on how to get the most bang for your buck from the taxman.

Auditing Fundamentals in a South African Context: Graded Questions offers a robust stock of applied question material that enables effective learning throughout the undergraduate auditing curriculum.

Testing all concepts from introductory to advanced level, the work provides a broad range of questions that are structured to assess varying levels of knowledge. The text’s helpful guidance feature assists students to independently advance their knowledge and to develop a sound mastery of exam technique, and advanced level questions support effective integration of knowledge.

The third edition of the work includes material that is revised and updated to reflect recent developments within the spheres of ethics and corporate governance. In addition, the work offers a substantial number of new questions relating to substantive procedures for all the major account balances and classes of transactions; in order to support effective, independent learning, this material is su pported with guided, principle-based explanation.

Auditing Fundamentals in a South African Context: Graded Questions is designed to complement the structure and approach of the textbook Auditing Fundamentals in a South African Context, making these ideal companion volumes, whilst also functioning effectively as a stand-alone question book.

Tax Law: An Introduction deals with the fundamentals of income tax in a practical and clear manner that makes this book an ideal tool for tax teachers. Written for students, this much-needed textbook simplifies complex concepts and avoids unnecessary jargon as it explains the key objectives and principles of taxation. The book sheds light on contemporary South

African tax law and the most important tax cases. It covers the process of tax collection as well as the interpretation of tax legislation.

Tax Law: An Introduction is intended to ease the teaching and understanding of an often-daunting subject. The book includes a link to the relevant Acts for easy access by students.

The primary objective in this work has been to assist students of income tax, including those studying at post-graduate level, not just to understand each judicial decision in isolation, but to gain insight into underlying (often unarticulated) general principles

This book is extracted from the main work, Silke: SA Income Tax, mainly for second-year students, who do not cover all the topics addressed in the main work.
The availability of this title eliminates the need to buy the same work for two consecutive years, which is more focused and economical. It is updated annually with the latest legislation.

Personal Financial Management provides an excellent and holistic structure for planning and managing your personal finances.

Everything you need to know in order to make informed decisions about any and every aspect of your finances is contained in the nine key personal financial planning areas: career, income tax, estate, investment, protection, credit, healthcare, retirement and emigration planning.

Ultimately, we all hope for financial independence after retirement, and how you plan and manage your finances in any one of these key areas can have far-reaching positive or negative implications for your future.

This book covers advanced topics and integrated questions. Its complementary publications, Introductory Questions on SA Tax and Questions on SA Tax, cover foundational topics and those typically dealt with in the study of tax at an undergraduate level.

This tutorial book includes questions and selected solutions on South African income tax, estate duty and value-added tax. Up-to-date questions are graded, allowing students to develop their abilities from an introductory to an advanced level. A selection of tutorial solutions is included in the book, and solutions to all questions are provided to lecturers at prescribing institutions. Mark plans are allocated to solutions.

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Bursting with practical, game-changing advice from one of the world's most popular business school professors, The Algebra of Wealth is the practical guidebook you need to win today's wealth game.

Today's workers have more opportunities and mobility than any previous generation. They also face unprecedented challenges, including inflation, labour and housing shortages, and climate volatility.

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Recession, inflation, interest rates, income tax, exchange rates, junk bonds ... We are bombarded with these terms every day, but what do they actually mean? And how do they affect you?

In this updated edition of Everyone's Guide to the South African Economy, all these issues - and more - are addressed. The book clearly explains and evaluates a wide range of economic occur rences - from the budget and the rand/dollar exchange rate to the balance of payments and the role of the South African Reserve Bank.

The book investigates the impact of the 2008/2009 global financial crisis and the COVID pandemic, assesses the state of the sub-Saharan African economy, and explores human development issues in South Africa and their implications for policy-making.

If you are baffled by the specialised jargon of economists and bankers and want to know more about the economic forces that subtly dictate your day-to-day existence, Everyone's Guide to the South African Economy will put you in the picture. This is essential reading for every South African consumer and taxpayer. Economics, after all, is too important to be left to economists.

This book is focused on a broader approach for all assurance providers (including both internal and external auditors) and addresses various advanced concepts that assurance providers need an understanding of.

This book introduces the fundamentals of financial mathematics.

It begins with a discussion of simple and compound interest and then establishes the important concepts of effective and equivalent effective interest rates. Subsequent chapters discuss the applications of annuities to practical problems regarding the saving of money and repayment of loans. The notion of using net present value and internal rate of return to distinguish between two different investment opportunities is presented.

The concluding chapters of the book take a brief look at the use of differential and integral calculus in financial mathematics. Each chapter includes numerous worked examples that are solved with the aid of a financial calculator where applicable.

This book combines in one volume the provisions of the Income Tax Act 58 of 1962, as it applies to individuals and businesses for a particular year of assessment.

It is written for undergraduate students using simple language and the relevant sections of the Act are provided and explained in simple terms, and can also be used by general accountants and tax advisors. The title is updated annually with the latest legislative amendments to the end of November each year.

The document is the 6th edition of 'Introductory Questions on SA Tax' edited by Shaun Parsons, providing a comprehensive overview of South African taxation. It includes various chapters covering topics such as gross income, capital gains tax, and value-added tax, along with selected solutions to questions. The content is designed to facilitate understanding and engagement with tax legislation and principles for students and practitioners in the field.