Understanding your employee needs and keeping them happy and healthy is the best way to combat absenteeism and limit its financial impact on your business. A definite correlation between absenteeism and its effect on revenue has been observed. And, statistics released last year by Occupational Care South Africa (OCSA) and Statistics South Africa show that […]
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What is absent or absenteeism? What does it mean and can I overlook it or should I deal with it? What will happen if I don’t deal with it? What harm can it do if an employee is a few minutes late? Questions, questions and more questions – but the most dominant consideration is usually
Whether a business is classified as a small business, or not, is a highly relevant issue from a South African tax perspective, because special taxation concessions are available specifically for small businesses, however no single definition of “small business” is contained in any of the tax statutes administered by SARS. In fact, some of the
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Certain bargaining councils have apparently neglected to deduct employees’ tax on benefits given to their members for decades. They have now been offered the opportunity to become tax compliant by paying a hefty levy on the total employees’ tax that should have been deducted from all payments to members over the past five years. However,
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