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            <description><![CDATA[The Minister of Home Affairs, Dr Leon Schreiber, has described the expanded Trusted Employer Scheme (TES) as the latest milestone in the Department of Home Affairs' quest to become an economic enabler in South Africa.  Delivering the keynote address at Xpatweb's Global Mobility Conference in Bryanston on 21 July 2026, the Minister said the expanded TES is "bigger and better" than before, with new pathways focused on major infrastructure projects, companies establishing headquarters or regional offices in South Africa, and the financial services sector. ]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[There has been plenty written on the South African Revenue Service’s (SARS) efforts to go after non-compliance of trusts. This year SARS started imposing recurring compliance penalties on certain trusts.  Now, these penalties have been reversed and SARS very prudently advised that “You are encouraged to use this time to submit outstanding Trust Income Tax Returns”. As usual, there are two sides to any battle coming: SARS wants trusts to be fully compliant, just like normal taxpayers. There are many providers who want to resist this and though some of their reasons may be extremely valid, others are less valid. Like all battles, the victims are mostly the innocent parties and those who need the most help, are least advised.]]></description>
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            <title>Is SARS your biggest creditor? Don't liquidate, compromise!</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Many South African business owners erroneously believe that when faced with a mountain of business debt, liquidation marks the end of their financial obligations. You can run from a lot of things, but where SARS is your largest creditor, trying to liquidate may be only the beginning of your financial ruin.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[South Africa continues to attract high-net-worth foreign nationals seeking an exceptional lifestyle, attractive investment opportunities and a favourable climate in which to live or retire. Yet many are surprised to discover that South Africa is also a high-tax jurisdiction, with a top marginal personal income tax rate of 45%.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[Government has officially opened the long-awaited second window for corporate employers seeking to become part of the Trusted Employer Scheme (TES), expanding the programme to create a faster, more predictable pathway for companies seeking to bring critical international skills into the country. Marisa Jacobs, Managing Director at Xpatweb, says this is a strong signal that South Africa is open for business, pairing regulatory reform with speed, digital efficiency and more predictable pathways for much-needed critical skills to enter the economy.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[A lawyer can be technically brilliant — analytically sharp, commercially astute, fearless in a negotiation — and still run a matter that drifts over budget, misses a milestone, or ends with a client who feels blindsided. That gap is not a legal knowledge problem. It is a delivery systems problem. Legal Project Management is what fills it. What LPM Actually Is]]></description>
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            <title>How to become a legal project manager in Africa: The IILPM certification guide</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Technically excellent but struggling with matters that drift, budgets that overshoot, and clients who feel out of the loop? The problem is not legal expertise — it is the absence of a structured system for delivering legal work. For decades, legal professionals had no formal qualification specifically built for this gap. That changed when the IILPM established its global certification framework — and when PocketAdvisor became the only IILPM-appointed training provider in Africa. Two Pathways: LPP and LPA]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[A supplier contract review, agreed at a fixed fee. Your associate gets into the documents, surfaces issues, flags them to the client. The client responds: “While you’re in there, can you check the other three supplier agreements? And there’s a dispute we’ve been putting off — can you just have a look?” The partner writes off six hours to avoid an awkward invoice. This is scope creep — and it is almost certainly happening on more matters than you are tracking. The True Cost]]></description>
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