How to Get a SARS Refund


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How to Get a SARS Refund is for people who derive their income from salaried employment and wish to utilise the tax laws in South Africa to maximise their refund from the South African Revenue Service (SARS) upon filing their annual tax return. The new edition contains updated examples with the latest tax rates to illustrate the amount of tax that the reader will pay on their salary from 1 March 2021. It also provides updates on changes to tax legislation relevant to salaried individuals, so that readers can stay up to date with what has changed and understand how this affects their ability to reduce their tax liability and increase their chances of getting a refund from SARS. The book helps readers to navigate their way through the annual income return (ITR12) for individuals as they complete the return via eFiling. Topics include the basics of understanding individual tax, deductions from taxable income, medical tax credits and individual tax. It also deals with the types of taxes a salaried taxpayer may become liable for, including dividends tax, tax on interest earned, capital gains tax and provisional tax. How to Get a SARS Refund is a simple, easy-to-understand guide on how to get the most bang for your buck from the taxman.




How to Get a SARS Refund for Small Businesses


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How to Get a SARS Refund for Small Businesses explains small-business tax. In easy-to-understand language, and with many practical examples that will allow those who have never studied the subject to understand tax rules quickly and easily, this book provides aspiring entrepreneurs with extra confidence to take that first step on their business adventure, while helping current business owners gain a better understanding of how their business operates. How to Get a SARS Refund for Small Businesses covers different types of tax that a small-business owner may encounter, including income tax, VAT, pay-as-you-earn (PAYE) and dividends tax. It also details how different types of entities are taxed, such as a private company compared to a sole proprietor, and can assist business owners in deciding whether they should establish a sole proprietorship, company or partnership. While the book aims to bridge the current education gap that exists for entrepreneurs and small-business owners who were not taught about tax in school or at university, it will also assist students who are studying entrepreneurship courses at college or university.







How to Get a SARS Refund for Retirees


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How to Get a SARS Refund for Retirees will assist people who will soon retire, or who have already retired, to understand how tax works in relation to their retirement so that they can make informed, tax-efficient decisions regarding their retirement savings. It will help them to get more out of their retirement savings, as well as expose the pitfalls that they need to look out for to avoid nasty surprises. The book will also provide guidance on the methods available to retirees to reduce their tax liability to ensure that they pay the least amount of tax legally possible so that they can put more money into their back pocket. It explains how to effectively utilise certain tax exemptions and make the most out of tax credits, which are only available to persons over the age of 65 years. In addition, it will explain how retirees can access a possible tax refund, and how other types of income that they may earn to supplement their pension, such as rental income and dividends, are taxed. A must-read for anyone who wants a financially secure, hassle-free retirement.




Sars War: Combating The Disease


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On 12 March 2003, the World Health Organisation (WHO) issued a global alert on the outbreak of a new form of pneumonia-like disease with symptoms that are similar to those of the common flu. This illness, officially known as severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), is potentially fatal and highly contagious, and has spread quickly to many parts of the world in a matter of a few weeks. Aided by globalisation and the ease of air travel today, the disease has now been reported in many countries, such as China, Hong Kong, Vietnam, Singapore, Canada, the US and some parts of Europe, with a large number of infections and a significant number of deaths.In this book, the global SARS outbreak is traced and described, with a focus on the regions where the most infections have been identified. An overview of the whole saga is presented: how the disease spreads; how governments react; how societies and people cope and how health experts work fervently to identify the virus and search for a cure.In addition, the book contains guidelines on what a person or organisation can do to reduce the risk of contracting the deadly illness. It includes precautionary measures disseminated by various health authorities and preventive herbal concoctions recommended by Chinese physicians, presented in an easy-to-read manner. Furthermore, insights of experts are provided.This book aims to give critical information on SARS. It is a must for people who want to find out more about the disease and how to reduce the risk of contracting it.




Rogue


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The story of a 'rogue unit' operating within the South African Revenue Service (SARS) became entrenched in the public mind following a succession of sensational reports published by the Sunday Times in 2014. The unit, the reports claimed, had carried out a series of illegal spook operations: they had spied on President Jacob Zuma, run a brothel, illegally bought spyware and entered into unlawful tax settlements. In a plot of Machiavellian proportions, head of the elite crime-busting unit Johann van Loggerenberg and many of SARS's top management were forced to resign. Van Loggerenberg's select team of investigators, with their impeccable track record of busting high-level financial fraudsters and nailing tax criminals, lost not only their careers but also their reputations. Now, in this extraordinary account, they finally get to put the record straight and the rumours to rest: there was no 'rogue unit'. The public had been deceived, seemingly by powers conspiring to capture SARS for their own ends. Shooting down the allegations he has faced one by one, Van Loggerenberg tells the story of what really happened inside SARS, revealing details of some of the unit's actual investigations.




SARS from East to West


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SARS from East to West is the production of international collaboration investigating the first major pandemic in the new millennium, SARS. As the only major outbreak of a deadly infectious disease in modern times, the SARS case is an excellent example of an emerging contagious disease in an interdependent and interconnected world and provided the bases for how subsequent pandemics, like the bird flu and swine flu, are viewed and managed. Eva-Karin Olsson and Lan Xue bring together crisis management scholars with genuine knowledge of the geographic area covered in each of the chapters to examine the response to the SARS crisis at national and international levels, as well as media analysis.




Virus Mania


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"The book 'Virus Mania' has been written with the care of a master-craftsman, courageously evaluating the medical establishment, the corporate elites and the powerful government funding institutions." Wolfgang Weuffen, MD, Professor of Microbiology and Infectious Epidemiology "The book 'Virus-Wahn' can be called the first work in which the errors, frauds and general misinformations being spread by official bodies about doubtful or non-virus infections are completely exposed." Gordon T. Stewart, MD, professor of public health and former WHO advisor - - - The population is terrified by reports of so-called COVID-19, measles, swine flu, SARS, BSE, AIDS or polio. However, the authors of "Virus Mania," investigative journalist Torsten Engelbrecht, Dr. Claus Köhnlein, MD, Dr. Samantha Bailey, MD, and Dr. Stefano Scoglio, BSc PhD, show that this fearmongering is unfounded and that virus mayhem ignores basic scientific facts: The existence, the pathogenicity and the deadly effects of these agents have never been proven. The book "Virus Mania" will also outline how modern medicine uses dubious indirect lab tools claiming to prove the existence of viruses such as antibody tests and the polymerase chain reaction (PCR). The alleged viruses may be, in fact, also be seen as particles produced by the cells themselves as a consequence of certain stress factors such as drugs. These particles are then "picked up" by antibody and PCR tests and mistakenly interpreted as epidemic-causing viruses. The authors analyze all real causes of the illnesses named COVID-19, avian flu, AIDS or Spanish flu, among them pharmaceuticals, lifestyle drugs, pesticides, heavy metals, pollution, malnutrition and stress. To substantiate it, the authors cite dozens of highly renowned scientists, among them the Nobel laureates Kary Mullis, Barbara McClintock, Walter Gilbert and Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet as well as microbiologist and Pulitzer Prize winner René Dubos, and it presents more than 1,400 solid scientific references. The topic of "Virus Mania" is of pivotal significance. Drug makers and top scientists rake in enormous sums of money and the media boosts its audience ratings and circulations with sensationalized reporting (the coverage of the "New York Times" and "Der Spiegel" are specifically analyzed).The enlightenment about the real causes and true necessities for prevention and cure of illnesses is falling by the wayside. For more reviews, see the older edition of "Virus Mania"




Shades


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St Matthias Mission 1902: 'There are men who know that when you are finished with this war of yours and have raised your flag to the glory of your Empire - the one that we, as black men, are supposed to revere for having bestowed on us education, faith, prosperity and all the other high-sounding gifts - that you will sell us out - perhaps against the advance of metaphorical cattle - and say it is expedient. You will sacrifice our rights in order to secure your peace with the Boers and shrug us off. It is for this expedience that men like Tom and Reuben and Sonwabo Pumami are dead. There will be thousands like them in the time to come. ' Against a backdrop of drought, the rinderpest pandemic, the South African War, the burgeoning gold-mining industry and the complex birth of the exploitative system of recruiting migrant labour, Shades explores the growing tensions between cultures in South Africa at the turn of the twentieth century and the deepening awareness of the black mission-educated elite, empowered by the printing press, of the need to articulate their political and spiritual beliefs. Set within the microcosm of an isolated Eastern Cape mission, Shades is not only a love story and the chronicle of a family but a sensitive and perceptive insight into the country's wider conflicts. It explores the slow but inexorable destruction of the fabric of a community, the assault on its traditions and the struggle to reconcile two faiths: the Christian and the traditional beliefs of the amaXhosa in their ancestral shades. It is the story of those far-sighted enough to seek convergence and those destined to undermine its wisdom. Primarily, Shades is an intimate tale of love, friendship, acceptance and profound loss: of life, of faith and of belonging.




Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic


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A masterpiece of science reporting that tracks the animal origins of emerginghuman diseases.