If you are being chased for an old debt which you just cannot pay, consider whether it may have “prescribed” – if so, the debt is extinguished and you cannot be forced to pay. Most debts prescribe after 3 years…
Employers: Is “team misconduct” grounds for dismissal?
Here’s an unhappy scenario for any employer – You are losing a fortune in stock shrinkage, You can prove that the losses stem from theft by a particular group of employees, But you cannot prove that each member of the…
The new Transfer Duty Rates: Will you pay more, or less?
In a nutshell, the transfer duty tax breaks announced in Budget 2015 will reduce costs for most middle-income households but will increase costs of property transactions above about R2,65m (with maximum savings at about the R2m to R2,3m level). Remember,…