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Understanding your tax code is key to ensuring you're paying the correct amount of tax. In this post, we’ll break it down in simple terms.

HMRC wants your money Have you ever forgotten  to declare income? Maybe you didn’t realise a foreign pension or rental property needed to...

HMRC nudge letters are flowing Imagine getting a letter in the post that starts with, "We have reason to believe..."  – not the most...

Understanding South African Dividend Withholding Tax (DWT) and the UK-South Africa Double Taxation Agreement (DTA) can help you save on...

Short term gain vs long term pain Many South Africans who migrate to the UK continue paying into their South African Retirement Annuity...

Who should tax emigrate? Anyone who has left South Africa on a permanent basis without the intention to return to South Africa should...

SARS has, as one of its strategic objectives, the issue of taxpayer non-compliance hard and costly. Consequently, they have enhanced...

As noted in previous blog posts, SARS has now finalised the new Tax Emigration process, effective 1 March 2021. That’s great news for...

One of the headlines in my newsfeeds today is “Biggest peacetime deficit caps extraordinary year for UK public finances”. Reading the...

Well, a few weeks into the new South African financial emigration dispensation and we are starting to see some light at the end of the...

If you live in the UK, would it surprise you to know that your PET could be subject to tax when you die? BUT your PET could also be...

Over the weekend we went to a fireworks display staged by one of the recent British Fireworks champions. Being a fireworks lover it was...

We have an interesting marketing/selling dilemma in the accounting and tax profession. We have some rules that say we are not allowed to...

In this next episode of the debate around expat tax, I thought it would be a good time to chat around, arguably, the most important part...

Fear and confusion about SARS expat rules still abound amongst South Africans who are no longer living in South Africa. Some of this is...

If you are anything like me, your view of money laundering is that it is the playground of drug lords and the mafia. Well, I have...

With emigration being a fairly popular pass time for South Africans these days, you would do well to know the impact of the decisions you...

People are very clever at playing with words and manipulating the answers to twist the law to work in their favour! The debate between...

One of our South African clients recently received a query from SARS. SARS were requesting the client to provide answers to the cash that...

There's emigrating from South Africa and then there's financially emigrating from South Africa and the two are definitely not the same thing