Month: August 2020

POPIA (The Protection of Personal Information Act) is Now Law and the Clock is Ticking

After many false starts over the years (the pandemic causing one last delay this year), the enforcement provisions of POPIA (the Protection of Personal Information Act) have finally become law.  The clock is ticking on the year’s grace period allowed for compliance and every business should be aware of the substantial implications of POPIA compliance, and of the equally substantial penalties and risks associated with …

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What Happens if your Driver’s Licence Expires During the Pandemic and You Have an Accident?

If the thought of spending hours or days in a queue to renew your expired driver’s licence fills you with dread, you are not alone. Even before lockdown the testing centres were running behind in renewing licences and testing licence applicants, and the lockdown has naturally caused backlogs to soar. Centre closures as a result of infection scares will …

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Protecting your Company’s Reputation When Staff Work from Home 

The number of staff working from home has surged with the lockdown, and many office-based employers now plan to keep most or all of their employees working remotely for the long term. There are of course many advantages to allowing those staff members who can work effectively from their own home offices to do so, but …

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Employees Working from Home: What Tax Deductions Can You Claim?   

Working from home is part of our “new normal” and home offices are predicted to remain a permanent feature of many employment relationships in the future.  Both employees and their employers should be familiar with the tax angles, in particular the opportunity to claim tax deductions. When and how do you qualify for deductions? What expenses can you deduct? We discuss the …

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