by Sentinel | Oct 17, 2022 | Advisory Services
By Bianca Maritz. Wills and Estates Specialist at Sentinel International If you’ve never heard of situs tax, you’re not alone. Read on for a crash course in one of the pivotal concepts of global estate planning. Say what? Situs tax? What on earth is that?...
by Sentinel | Sep 21, 2022 | Advisory Services
This year’s budget speech proposed two significant changes to corporate taxation. In an effort to incentivise corporate investment, the finance minister proposed reducing the corporate income tax rate from 28% to 27%. To make up for the resultant shortfall in tax...
by Sentinel | Feb 3, 2022 | Advisory Services, Webinars
A recent visit to the Pretoria Master’s Office by the Deputy Minister of Justice and Constitutional Development shone a light on an issue that has been plaguing us for almost two years. Read on to understand why the current administrative delays are entirely out of...
by Sentinel | Jan 18, 2022 | Staff profiles
Sentinel’s Gqeberha representative hasn’t always had it easy. But she’d rather go bungee jumping than cry into her cornflakes. When Sue Clark got home from America in 2008, she had hit rock bottom. After enduring the loss of two children, the collapse of her marriage...
by Sentinel | Oct 28, 2021 | Advisory Services, Webinars
Under South African law, when a person loses mental capacity, they lose the right to a Power of Attorney, which forces most families down a laborious and expensive road of appointing a curator or an administrator. Our advice is to rather set up a vested trust. Here’s...