Don’t let tax get you down. We strive to utilise the entirety of the tax law environment to reach efficient taxation.

These services can be performed as once-off services or retainer taxation planning and management services to individuals and legal entities, such as Companies, Close Corporations, Trusts and Clubs.

With our qualified and competent team of tax professionals we are here to assist you with:

• Fast and effective relevant VAT, PAYE Income Tax, Import Tax registrations.
• On time submissions of VAT, PAYE, Income Tax and provisional tax returns.
• Review and adjustment of VAT, PAYE and Income Tax returns in compliance with taxation laws and regulations.
• The initiation and management of objections and appeals.

A large part of beginning and managing a business is the secretarial function. This means registering entities, ensuring entities annual returns are up to date, shares and share registers are maintained and resolutions and minutes are prepared and kept in terms of the Companies Act and applicable regulations. This function is mainly a compliance function, thus require the attention of competent and qualified professionals.

We have a very fastidious approach to client’s secretarial function which will ensure completeness, accuracy and compliance!

Please refer to our Corporate Governance services regarding the effect of the Secretarial function on the Internal Control Environment.

One of the most important functions within a business is the Human Resources function. This makes the HR Function a key point for management to focus on.

The combination of our Accounting, Financial Management and Taxation Professionals makes us uniquely adequate to manage the HR function.

We perform monthly payroll services such as preparation of payslips, reporting to regulatory authorities such as SARS and Department of Labour and annual and bi-annual payroll reconciliations. We also focus on individual salary structuring for employees and management to ensure most sufficient value can be obtained from salaries. Our last deliverable to our clients is the implementation of sufficient HR procedures within the entity’s control environment to ensure complete, accurate but also quick payroll data availability with reduced regulatory risks.

The above would not be a complete HR function if we did not assist with certain administrative issues within all businesses, thus we can also assist employment agreements and disciplinary codes applicable to the business.

The glue of the business’ financial functions has to be the Financial Management.

To achieve sound Financial Management, we aim to integrate all the functions of the business within a sound financial management structure as efficient and effective as possible. This is reached through tailormade reporting mechanisms for management to make optimised business decisions. We also manage the Accounting and Taxation functions to help build the Balance Sheet to an optimised position.

The data management uses from all functions are thoroughly reviewed and analysed before being reported to management.

We also focus on the soft non-financial KPI’s required by clients to ensure adequate good corporate citizenship without compromising the financial results.

The last taxes you pay in your life is the estate taxes that accrues the day you pass away. The irony is you even pay tax after you have passed.

Through smart tax planning and administration these taxes can efficiently be managed to your advantage. Our unique expertise in Accounting and Taxation makes us the perfect service provider to assist in Estate Planning and Administration. We perform estate planning and executor functions when estate administration becomes applicable. We are also partnered with experienced qualified attorneys to support with the legal side of the administration.

Our experience and competencies throughout our careers have diversified our operational and financial knowledge of various sized companies and groups in various sized industries.

This makes us perfect to assist in the planning and implementation of corporate structures for the following areas:

• Mitigation of divisional / branch risks through business and company structures.
• Creation of tax efficiencies through diverse tax planning and corporate structures
• Evaluate business division efficiencies and increase synergy.
• Structuring to increase availability of corporate finance..
• Structuring to assist with mergers and acquisitions.

We also focus on the internal control environment of a business through risk identification processes and implementation of internal controls. This is usually reached by the preparation of Policy Manuals and Standard Operating Procedures to also assist clients with sustainability.

The All in One is the consolidation of all our various high quality skills, competencies and vast experiences. The Financial / Accounting / Tax Manager on steroids. We perform all of the above services perpetually throughout the month and year to ensure:

• Compliance with laws and regulations as a whole.
• Effective and efficient accounting.
• Consistent tax planning and reporting.
• Perpetual review, test and implementation of internal controls.
• High level reporting on a weekly, monthly to annual basis.
• Ultimate Financial Management.

The only exclusion to the All in One is assurance services.

We perform formal Independant Reviews in terms of International Standard on Review Engagements (ISRE) 2400 (Revised).

We also perform certain assurance engagement in the form of Agreed Upon Procedures in terms of the International Standard on Related Services (ISRS) 4400.