by Jay Pillay Incorporated | Feb 2024 | Personal Finance, Tax
How much will you be paying in income tax, petrol and sin taxes? Use Fin 24’s four-step Budget Calculator here to find out. The unchanged transfer duty and tax tables, with a note on fiscal drag Unchanged from last year, so taxpayers can breathe a sigh of relief that...
by Jay Pillay Incorporated | Sep 2021 | Personal Finance, Tax
“The future of money is digital currency” (Bill Gates) If you are thinking of buying – or have bought – any “crypto asset” such as a cryptocurrency like Bitcoin, Ethereum, Polkadot, Solana (or any of the many other crypto currencies springing up all over the...
by Jay Pillay Incorporated | Jan 2021 | Personal Finance, Website of the Month
“If you fail to plan, you are planning to fail” (Benjamin Franklin) We have all been battered by the economic fallout from the lockdowns. Now more than ever before we should pro-actively take control of and manage our finances through the crisis. A personal financial...
by Jay Pillay Incorporated | May 2020 | Credit Law, Employment and Labour Law, Personal Finance, Property
If you are one of the many employees retrenched or put on short pay or unpaid leave as a result of the COVID-19 crisis and lockdown, you will be wondering how to cover the monthly instalments on your mortgage bond and other credit agreements. You have no doubt heard...
by Jay Pillay Incorporated | Jan 2020 | Delict and Civil Claims, Personal Finance
“I always advise people never to give advice” (P. G. Wodehouse) If you want to send shivers down the spine of any investor, mention “Steinhoff”, or “Sharemax”, or any one of the many other spectacular corporate collapses that have...