Taxpayers who claim a deduction for business travel must, if they haven’t already done so, urgently implement and maintain a detailed logbook that records all of their travel, both personal and business.

Pravin Gordhan's stated intention to balance the National Treasury's books by having SARS focus ever more vigilantly on tax law compliance, means that employers can’t afford to take any chances.

Vodacom has welcomed 23 new graduate students to its premier skills development programme for young tertiary-qualified South Africans; Vodacom Discover.

The full amount of medical aid contributions paid by an employer will be a taxable fringe benefit from 1 March and subsistence allowance rates for travel increase today.

With the new financial year imminent, companies should take care to verify that their payroll service providers are interpreting the changes to the Income Tax Act, 1962, as they apply to the taxation of medical aid in the payroll correctly, warns Karen Schmikl, tax legislation specialist at Softline VIP.

Major retailer Pick n Pay has acknowledged the credibility and value of the National Diploma in Payroll Administration Services offered by.

As companies continue to review their management strategies in light of global economic pressure and the rise of opportunities in expanding marketplaces, the profile of skills that are shaping ICT is rapidly changing.

Human resource managers now have a fresh concern in a disturbing new trend affecting output and productivity. The traditional problem of ‘burn-out’ has made way for ‘bore-out’, which describes a scenario in which an employee’s zest for work is extinguished by the mundane rather than an unmanageable workload.

Thirty years ago, investment in information technology development was principally concerned with business and industrial applications, writes John Flynn, head of solutions engineering at DST Global Solutions.

The ongoing changes and problems in business, requires a new kind of leader: a leader that is authentic (real), has integrity (whole) and thinks innovatively (creative), writes Annemarie Viljoen, MD of FastForward Recruitment.

The pace and success of human resource development is arguably the most critical force of change within corporate South Africa today.

The old cliché “good help is hard to find” is becoming increasingly relevant in the South African IT industry. Properly skilled people are in short supply and companies need to be proactive about training and retaining the good ones.