Giving your employees gifts this Festive Season? Then be sure to check with your accountant first! This is because any kind of gift that an employee receives from an employer will be taxable in the hands of the employee, and in some cases, could have a detrimental impact on an employee’s overall tax liability.

Find out here how SARS will tax the most common gifts to employees, and how to ensure your employees get the maximum benefit from any gift they receive from your company this year. 

With the final days of 2023 ticking away, there is still time to do something that’s becoming all the rage among successful entrepreneurs – develop a one-page business plan. Like the elevator pitch before it, the idea of the one-page business plan is to distil the essence of your business down to its most important elements.

A one-page business plan makes it significantly easier to keep track of your key purpose, targets, milestones and KPIs, while also allowing relevant personnel to easily distil the important messages and goals. Here’s how to make one.

We live in desperate times. South Africa’s official unemployment rate is 33%, and the unofficial one is thought to be much higher. In a climate like this more and more people find themselves desperately seeking work and the number lying on their CVs is rising every year.

But lies on a CV are not the harmless fibs that applicants may think they are. Hiring someone into a position they are unqualified for can be extremely damaging to any business. Here then are 9 tips for detecting lies on your applicants’ CVs.