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South Africa: tax, business and moving facts

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We are still checking South Africa fact by fact. It goes fully live, with tax tools and guides, only once every figure is confirmed against official sources.

Latest facts

Who leads
Cyril Ramaphosa is President.
Official source
Company tax
27%
Official source
VAT
15% standard rate
Official source
How you register
Online with the CIPC
Official source

Grants, loans and funding

Business types with room to grow

  • Tourism
  • Mining services
  • Business process outsourcing

"Taxmiser summary" rows are our plain-English opinion, not an official figure.

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