As a South African living or planning to live abroad, you need to determine if you should pay tax in South Africa once you’ve moved offshore. Because South Africa has…
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Many South African expats leave South Africa with their minds firmly focussed on their overseas opportunities. For South Africans who have successfully emigrated and made their lives abroad, the advantages…
There’s a massive difference between physical and financial emigration from South Africa. Physical emigration entails relocating your life, your belongings, and your family to another country. Financial emigration starts with…
Many people become confused between the terms emigrate and immigrate. These are two words that both have a similar meaning and are often used in the wrong contexts. Both words…
On home soil your options are limited, but once you emigrate, you’re entitled to cash in and transfer your retirement annuity funds abroad. Here’s what expats need to know about…
Many South Africans living abroad and in South Africa hear the term ‘financial emigration’ and are not quite sure what it means and are worried that if they financially emigrate…
Until recently the South African Reserve Bank used the term “blocked rand account” to refer to the special bank account allocated for your assets when you financially emigrate from South…
FNB has recently released their House Price Index for August 2018 and the results show a strong upward trend in people selling their homes in order to emigrate. The House…
The decline in South Africa’s GDP of 0.7% in the second quarter of this year indicates that South Africa has just entered a technical recession. This decline follows hot on…
Many people get confused about the financial emigration journey and what it actually entails. Very simply, the financial emigration journey involves changing your financial status from South African resident to…