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            <title>SARS cracks down on VAT refund fraud: 14 accused in R3.99-million tax fraud investigation</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[A coordinated law enforcement operation spanning three provinces has resulted in 14 accused appearing in court over an alleged R3.99-million VAT refund fraud scheme. The arrests demonstrate the South African Revenue Service’s (SARS) increased efforts to combat tax-related criminal activity, as well as what the tax authority describes as its “determination to dismantle criminal networks that abuse the tax system for personal gain.” A Multi-Province Crackdown on Alleged VAT Fraud]]></description>
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            <title>R65-million tax deduction rejected: Tax court sends warning to companies funding related-party ...</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[A recent Tax Court judgment has delivered a multimillion-rand reminder to South African businesses that paying another company's expenses, does not automatically entitle the paying company to claim an income tax deduction, even under a binding commercial agreement. Taxpayer Olie Trading (Pty) Ltd found this out the hard way when the Johannesburg Tax Court upheld a decision by the South African Revenue Service (SARS) to disallow approximately R65.6-million in deductions claimed for expenditure incurred on behalf of its associated company.]]></description>
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            <title>Home Affairs waives one of the biggest practical hurdles for visa applications in South Africa</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The Minister of Home Affairs has waived the requirement for foreign nationals in South Africa to submit visa applications at least 60 days before their current visa expires, a precondition that has long presented a significant practical stumbling block for visa applicants.  In terms of Regulation 9(5)(a) and Regulation 9(8)(c) of the Immigration Regulations, a foreign national in South Africa applying for a change of status or conditions of their visa, or a visa renewal, is required to submit the application “no less than 60 days prior to the expiry date of his or her visa.” ]]></description>
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            <title>Double jeopardy – what happens if the first sanction is later set aside?</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Reach Summit (Pty) Ltd v Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration and Others (JR2230/22) [2026] ZALCJHB 270, delivered on 25 August 2026. An employee, Cindi Alani Samso, was employed as a project manager responsible for recruitment and placement. Problems arose with two recruitment projects, including delays, missed deadlines and an alleged failure to achieve the required recruitment targets.]]></description>
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            <title>Before You Automate: How to Find the Quick Wins in Your Law Firm’s Workflow</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Your firm invested in a contract automation platform last year. Six months later, two people use it — when they remember — and the rest of the team is still drafting NDAs from a folder labelled “Templates v3 FINAL USE THIS ONE.” Meanwhile, your conveyancing team spends forty-five minutes every Monday morning manually updating a spreadsheet that nobody else reads. The automation happened. Just not where it would have mattered. This is not a technology failure. It is a sequencing failure. Firms that roll out automation tools without first understanding their own processes tend to automate the wrong things, or automate the right things in the wrong order — and the inefficiency carries on, now with a subscription fee attached.]]></description>
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            <title>Managing Difficult Clients: A Legal Project Management Approach to Stakeholder Expectations</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The brief came in on a Friday. Commercial transaction, three parties, tight timeline. You took it on, confirmed the instructions with your contact, and got to work. Six weeks later, you are on your fourth “urgent” call this week, your original contact has changed twice, and the client’s CEO — who was never part of your initial instructions — has emailed to say the deal structure you have been working to is not what the company agreed to. The fee is capped. The write-offs are stacking up. And you are nowhere near done. The client, from their perspective, has been badly let down. From yours, you delivered exactly what you were instructed to do.]]></description>
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            <title>From objection to collection: Lessons from Africa Cash and Carry on the steps taxpayers cannot ...</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The recent judgment in Commissioner for the South African Revenue Service v Africa Cash and Carry (Crown Mines) (Pty) Ltd and Another (Case No. 42076/2022) demonstrates that successfully managing a tax dispute requires considerably more than merely filing an objection to a Sars assessment. Handed down by the Pretoria High Court on 2 October 2026, the judgment highlights that suspension of payment requests, dealings with Sars while the dispute is pending, taking steps to preserve assets, settlement negotiations and ultimately the collection of a tax debt, can prove equally important long after the immediate dispute has concluded.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[The response mounted in the first hours and days following a catastrophic event can have far-reaching consequences for organisations, insurers, regulators and affected communities, according to legal and industry experts speaking at an industry forum hosted by the Insurance Institute of Gauteng (IIG) and Cox Yeats today. Lessons from construction, mining, fire and maritime losses]]></description>
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