March 2017 - Aliwal Road

Aliwal Road Group services include Accounting & Tax, Auditing, Investments & Life Assurance and Wills, Trusts & Deceased Estates

Investment Review of 2016

Tags: 2016, All Bond Index, ALSI, Assets, Bonds, Cash, Foreign Equity, investment, Offshore, Review, SA Property, South Africa|

South African asset class returns were fairly muted in 2016, except for bonds – the All Bond Index returned 15.4%.

SARS: Delaying Your Tax Refund

Tags: budget, Minister of Finance, Pravin Gordhan, Refund, SARS, Tom Moyane|

In a recent newsletter we reported that many of our clients had experienced problems with SARS delaying the payment to

Interest-Free Loans to Trusts

Tags: beneficiaries, davis committee, Donations Tax, income tax act, Interest-Free, legislation, Loans, section 7C, Tax, Trusts|

The draft legislation about which we have written in previous newsletters has been enacted and came into effect on 1

Budget – 2017/18

Tags: budget, company tax, dividend withholding tax, DWT, foreign dividends, fuel levy, government expenditure, Income Tax, increased taxes, interest, legislation, Pravin Gordhan, SARS, sin taxes, slow economic growth, Tax, tax collections, tax free savings, tax tables, taxpayer, TFS, VAT|

"Going forward we expect further tax increases over the next few years which set against a slowing economy could make