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Anja Finnern - Sable Consulting

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Anja Finnern - Sable Consulting

BA (Law) LLB LLM (Commercial Law) (University of Cape Town)
BPhil Sustainable Development Planning & Management
(cum laude) (University of Stellenbosch)

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anja@sableconsulting.co.za

Anja Finnern, founder and director of Sable Consulting, is a member of the Cape Law Society and a registered Tax Practitioner with the South African Revenue Service. Her extensive experience as a tax practitioner with KPMG, both nationally and abroad, and with Ernst & Young in London, is combined with a Master’s Degree in Commercial Law. Her local and international experience enables Sable Consulting to provide specialist tax services to both individuals and employers – in particular,expatriate individuals and their employers.

Anja graduated from the University of Cape Town with an LLB degree and a Master’s Degree in Commercial Law, incorporating the Higher Diploma in Taxation. She is a member of the Golden Key International Honour Society and is an admitted attorney in the High Court of South Africa. Anja has a BPhil degree (cum laude) in Sustainable Development Planning and Management from the University of Stellenbosch.

ourservices

Sable Consulting offers a range of compliance and consulting services that focus on effective expatriate, individual and employees’ tax solutions. We ensure compliance with the relevant South African income tax laws, while increasing tax efficiency. Sable Consulting has associations with excellent international tax practitioners, whose services are enlisted where required.

Our specialist and extensive tax services include:

  • Income tax registration
  • Tax filing and consulting services
  • Comprehensive South African income tax support to expatriates
  • Employees’ tax support for employers of expatriates
  • Assistance relating to donations tax and capital gains tax
  • Help with the preparation for, and response to, SARS audits

Sable Consulting also offers a seminar service to employers and payroll staff dealing with tax issues specific to your industry. Have a look at our detailed list of services or contact Sable Consulting with any tax queries.

EXPATRIATE TAX SERVICES

Complying with the tax requirements of a foreign country can be overwhelming. Our extensive national and international experience allows us an intrinsic understanding of these difficulties and affords us an advantage when assisting expatriates, whether foreign nationals living and working in South Africa or South Africans living and working abroad. Our expertise assists foreign nationals working in South Africa comply with the applicable South African tax legislation. We also provide expert assistance to their foreign or local employers related to the income

tax consequences of their employment contracts and remuneration packages. We offer professional and knowledgeable advice on how to manage employees on the local payroll. Sable Consulting also proficiently assists South Africans working abroad or emigrating from South Africa with their income tax and exchange control matters. We have associations with international tax practitioners who may be consulted when required.

FOR THE INDIVIDUAL
  • Entrance and exit interviews providing general overviews of the South African income tax regime on arrival and details on tax consequences and obligations on departure.
  • Relevant registration for South African income tax purposes.
  • Assistance with the South African income tax residency regulations.
  • On-going annual filing and other applicable compliance requirements.
  • Review of income tax assessments and preparation of objections and appeals where required.
  • Consulting services relating to specific income tax queries.
  • Assistance with the taxation and exchange control consequences of investments.
  • Assistance in the application, use and potential tax relief provided by double taxation agreements.
FOR THE EMPLOYER
  • Assistance with the planning of the assignment, including advising the local and foreign entity of the South African tax withholding obligations in relation to the expatriate.
  • Assistance with the drafting of clauses for inclusion in assignment contracts.
  • Assistance with employees’ tax planning specific to expatriate employees, including the structuring of remuneration packages in the most tax efficient manner.
  • Focused expatriate payroll assistance, including tax computations and the application of the correct multiple gross-up methodology where required.
  • Consulting relating to income tax and specific expatriate tax queries.

INDIVIDUAL TAX SERVICES

The South African tax and exchange control regulations are becoming increasingly complex and difficult to navigate. Sable Consulting provides tailored tax and exchange control services to individuals, ensuring compliance with the relevant regulations in an efficient manner. We offer both compliance and consultancy services around tax and exchange control concerns.

CONSULTANCY SERVICES
  • Income tax, capital gains tax, donations tax and general individual tax queries.
  • Income tax consequences attendant upon investments into and out of South Africa, including exchange control assistance.
  • Assistance with the taxation and exchange control implications of emigration from South Africa.
  • Assistance with questions relating to labour brokers, personal service providers and independent contractors.
  • Assistance with requesting advance tax rulings from SARS relating to specific income tax issues.
  • Assistance with the application of capital gains tax.
  • Assistance with the income tax implications of family events, e.g. a marriage in community of property.
  • Assistance with the deduction of donations.
  • Assistance with the income tax treatment of medical expenses, including those relating to persons with a disability, as defined in the relevant income tax legislation.
  • Identifying potentially applicable income tax relief for individuals.
  • Assistance with the preparation for and response to income tax audits.
COMPLIANCE SERVICES
  • Registration and de-registration for income tax purposes.
  • The preparation and submission of income tax returns.
  • The preparation of income tax computations.
  • The preparation and submission of provisional tax returns.
  • Review of income tax assessments and preparation of objections and appeals where required.
  • Assistance relating to donations tax and capital gains tax
  • General communication with SARS where required
  • Exchange control applications to the South African Reserve Bank

EMPLOYEES’ TAX SERVICES

Tax legislation and compliance requirements around employees’ tax are becoming more stringent. SARS is increasing its annual audits and applying punitive interest and penalty charges to businesses that are not maintaining their tax obligations in these respects. Sable Consulting offers employers both compliance and consultancy services to aid in the smooth running of your businesses.

CONSULTANCY SERVICES
  • Consulting in respect of general employees’ tax questions.
  • Assistance with the drafting of clauses for inclusion in employment contracts.
  • Assistance with the identification of and employees’ tax treatment of personal service providers, labour brokers and independent contractors.
  • Assistance with requesting advance tax rulings relating to specific employees’ tax issues.
  • Assistance with the employees’ tax implications of employee share schemes.
  • Assistance can be provided to payroll staff in regard to specific issues experienced by them or with general changes to tax legislation affecting payroll. This assistance may be provided either as one-on-one training or in a seminar format.
COMPLIANCE SERVICES
  • Registration and de-registration for PAYE, UIF, SDL, etc.
  • Payroll assistance with specific groups of employees, e.g. expatriates and executives.
  • Payroll assistance relating to specific payroll events like monthly payslips, tax computations, IRP5 and IT3(a) certificates, monthly EMP 201 returns and the EMP501 Employer Reconciliation Declaration.
  • Reviewing of PAYE, SDL and UIF statements of account from SARS and assistance with correcting these where required.
  • Assistance with the preparation for and responses to payroll audits.
  • Completion of employees’ tax reviews to ascertain compliance with the relevant employees’ tax legislation and to determine whether salary packages are structured efficiently.

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