High net worth families used to rely on creating a trust as a tax-efficient vehicle for growing their assets and passing wealth from generation to generation. But tax authorities and governments around the world have tightened up laws and regulations to prevent the affluent from using trusts to shield their income and capital gains from…
Despite some blonde global leaders recent efforts, the world is more open to emigration than ever before, capital knows no borders, and it’s increasingly common for the members of a mid to high-income South African family to be scattered around the globe. From the young professional working in Dubai for a few years before returning…
With more and more people formally emigrating from South Africa, many because they have been advised that emigration automatically terminates one’s tax residency in South Africa, it is worthwhile revisiting how one ceases to be tax resident in South Africa and the South African tax obligations of the termination of South African tax residency. An…
As we enter the home stretch of 2019, many of the same themes that have dominated headlines for the past three years continue to dictate the direction of the markets. But in addition to the volatile brew of Brexit, trade wars and instability in the Middle East, a number of analysts and economists are beginning…
