I contributed to a piece about finance tips posted in the Beeld this week. Since the original article was posted in Afrikaans, I decided to translate it and add it to my blog as well. Enjoy (as much as one can enjoy reading about finances)! Avoid short-term debt Getting into debt is the easiest thing …
When we invest in different asset classes, each is taxed differently. Depending on where your money is invested when you retire, your effective tax rate will differ. This got me wondering, how badly can you fuck this up? Will you, by investing in the wrong asset classes, keep yourself from living the good life? About …
There has been a lot of talk about how lenient capital gains tax in South Africa is. Stealthy Wealth wrote a good article about this, called I love capital gains tax. If you must pay tax, pay capital gains tax. There exists an option to reduce the tax payable on your equity investments even further …
We want our children to be money savvy and this is, unfortunately, one of the things they will never learn in school. We started working and found out about taxes, loans, interest and all the financial terms that we had to know. Systematically, we started figuring out what was going on around us. Then one …
When you don’t need to submit your tax return With the deadline for income tax submissions approaching fast, everyone is scrambling to submit their tax returns. Not everyone is required to file their tax return, but today I want to convince you to do it anyway. According to the South African Revenue Service (SARS), you …