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Tax and compliance,
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A free monthly newsletter for South African business owners who are tired of discovering compliance obligations after they've already been penalised for missing them.

NEXT DEADLINE  ·  EMP501 — 31 MAY 2026
"Most business owners don't know their compliance responsibilities — even the successful ones."

Over the course of a career in tax and accounting, the same pattern appeared again and again. Business owners would ask for advice — not because they were careless, but because nobody had ever explained the system to them. Successful, capable people running real companies, discovering obligations they didn't know existed.

Rand & Reason exists to close that gap. Not as a replacement for your accountant, but as the resource that means you never walk into an accountant's office — or a SARS audit — without understanding what's happening and why.

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Six months of topics that actually matter to a South African business owner.

01 · April
The 5 taxes every SA business owner must know
Income tax, provisional tax, VAT, PAYE and UIF — explained without a law degree.
02 · May
Provisional tax: the one that catches everyone off guard
Who qualifies, how to calculate your payment, and what happens if you underestimate.
03 · June
Your company secretarial obligations
CIPC annual returns, director duties, and when you actually need a shareholders' agreement.
04 · July
Filing season — your business owner checklist
What to gather, what auto-assessments mean, and the deadline that most people miss.
05 · August
How to pay yourself from a Pty Ltd
Salary vs dividends vs director's loan — the real tax implications with actual rand figures.
06 · September
What your business finances should look like by now
A six-month review and the Q4 SARS deadlines your calendar needs before year-end.

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