Tag: legislation
Competition Law – lower merger thresholds?
As promised earlier this year, Minister of Economic Development, Ebrahim Patel, has begun the process of implementing changes to the Competition Act, 89 of...
Tax avoidance could be a tax trap
In 2016, the Income Tax Act (“the Act”) was amended to provide for a further tax burden where (by and large) individuals had advanced...
Money Laundering Compliance for Africa?
Africa has earned an unfair reputation of being a haven for money laundering and terror financing activity. There’s good reason for this. Africa has...
Prescription – can you waive your rights?
Prescription in South Africa is regulated by the Prescription Act No. 68 of 1968, as amended.
Prescription refers to the role that the passage...
FICA amended – Needs implementation
With South Africa already on precarious ground as a result of its alleged ‘state capture’, not least also the effects of South Africa being...
THE DIGITAL AGE – Does the law require amendment?
Technology is advancing much more quickly than most people anticipated even a decade ago.
This begs the question as to whether or not our social, economic and political institutions and structures are equipped, or have developed sufficiently, to deal with the ethical and legal challenges that these advancements have brought and are ever more rapidly bringing.
DRONES – DAWN OF A NEW WAVE OF DISRUPTION?
Hilton Petersen – partner Petersen Hertog Attorneys and Dr Ivor Blumenthal, unpack and discuss the law around the usage of drones and how this...
WHAT CONSTITUTES A BBBEE TRANSACTION?
The Department of Trade and Industry recently published, for public comment, a notice containing draft thresholds for major BBBEE transactions.
The inclusion paradigm
The new frontiers of business advocates for transformative measures, which serve a symbol of alliance to customers, suppliers and the community.
Evidently, a growing...
NEW BILLS SIGNED INTO LAW
On 11 January 2017, President Zuma signed the following Finance Bills into Law.
Taxation Laws Amendment Act
The main purpose of the Bill is to amend...
