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18 Nov 2011
 
 
Uncertainty surrounds the COP 17 outcomes
Polity Focus
If the leading countries participating in the seventeenth Conference of the Parties (COP 17) negotiations do not make a firm decision to have a second commitment period, following the first phase...
 
 
15 Sep 2011
 
Businesses urged to get involved in climate negotiating process
CLIMATE CHANGE
South African companies should be aware that business is being given an opportunity to engage in global climate change negotiations not only as an observer, but through stakeholder programmes and...
 
 
01 Jul 2011
 
PPI Bill will affect how the media deals with sources
Media Law
The newly drafted Protection of Personal Information (POPI) Bill, which will be promulgated in September, will affect the way in which the media deals with its sources and may increase the...
 
 
03 Jun 2011
 
 
 
Protection of Personal Information Bill
VIDEO
The business world is currently debating the Protection of Personal Information Bill. Advisory firm Deloitte director for tax and legal affairs, Dean Chivers, explains more about this Bill, which...
 
 
05 Nov 2010
 
 
 
Generating praise and concern
Company Law
Despite the concerns surrounding the new Companies Act, No 71 of 2008, and the lengthy period to finalise it, the aim of the Act is to make business proceedings easier, says global accounting and...
 
 
09 Jun 2010
 
African economies should boost tax collection, cut reliance on aid
TAXATION & AID
African economies could, and had to, boost tax collections and reduce their reliance on aid, Jean-Philippe Stijns, an economist at the Development Centre of the Organisation for Economic...
 
 
07 May 2010
 
 
 
Guidelines met with mixed feelings
Tax, Customs and Excise
Global accounting and consulting firm Deloitte has mixed feelings about the publication of the Customs Administrative Monetary Penalty and the Excise Administrative Monetary Penalty System,...
 
 
17 Feb 2010
 
New vehicle owners to pay emissions tax from Sept 1
2010 BUDGET
The proposed carbon dioxide (CO2) vehicle emissions tax, which will come into effect on September 1, would now be implemented as a specific tax and not as an ad valorem tax, the National Treasury...
 
 
 
                       
 
 
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