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Huysamen Westraad Incorporated January 2025
 
 
 
3 Things You Have to Do to Position Your Business for Growth in 2025
 
In a world where market conditions and consumer preferences are constantly shifting, many business advisors tell leaders to be agile and adaptable if they want their businesses to succeed. While this can be effective, it’s even better for your business to already be positioned to take advantage of any changes that may occur. 

Whatever the size of your business, the right planning and structure can lead to growth. Here are three proactive things you can do that will pay off in the long run.
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 Tax Compliance in 2025: Help Is at Hand  
  
  
 Starting a New Business? Here Are the Tax Implications...  
  
  
 Why Email is Destroying Your Business (And How to Stop it)  
 
  
  
  
  
 
  
  
  
  
 

SARS has warned that it will intensify and deepen its existing administrative efforts to drive taxpayer compliance, deploying more data science and AI, and imposing significant legal and administrative costs on non-compliant taxpayers. 

This means that in 2025, maintaining full tax compliance will be more crucial than ever. Your best shot at ensuring all the compliance requirement boxes are ticked continuously and efficiently is to rely on our friendly and professional expertise. 

 		 
  
  

Starting a new business isn’t just a challenging undertaking. It also comes with a list of tax liabilities and administrative obligations. Not to mention an impact on the business owner’s personal tax affairs. 

This overview highlights not only the compelling case for prioritising tax planning when starting a business, but also the reasons why your accountant is a must-have from Day 1...  

 		 
  
  
 In June 2019, Slack co-founder and CEO Stewart Butterfield declared that business email would be dead and buried within seven years. Now, six years later, email remains as strong as ever – despite the weaknesses Butterfield saw still being there. 

Over-reliance on email brings a variety of problems. Problems which are choking businesses and, in some cases, even killing them. Here’s how to stop your business being next. 		 
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NOTE FOR ACCOUNTANTS: The SARS Guide Taxation in South Africa found here provides a high-level 134-page overview of the most significant tax legislation administered by SARS in South Africa.   
 
  
 
NOTE FOR ACCOUNTANTS: The SARS Tax Guide for Small Businesses here illustrates some of the tax considerations for the different types of business entities while also offering guidance on the other taxes that may be payable in addition to income tax.
 
  
 

NOTE FOR ACCOUNTANTS: Email statistics from Prosperity Media can be found here. The Seacom BEC article can be found here.


 

 
Your Tax Deadlines for January 2025
 
  • 07 January – PAYE submissions and payments.

  • 20 January – End of Filing Season 2024 for Provisional taxpayers & Trusts.

  • 24 January – VAT manual submissions and payments.

  • 30 January – Excise duty payments.

  • 31 January – VAT electronic submissions and payments, & CIT Provisional Tax payments where applicable.
 
 
 
 
NOTE FOR ACCOUNTANTS: See “Important Dates” on the SARS website (click the right arrow next to “Today” to view the appropriate month).
 
 
 
Have a Healthy, 
Happy and Successful 
2025!
 
 
 
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