From Democracy to Bureaucracy?

Ever thought what it would be like to start your own business? Whist one would think the government would encourage the establishment of SME’s, which would create employment, which would create stability and so and so on……

Instead it would appear that the South African government is so obsessed with control that it is in fact acting counter productive to the encouragement of entreperneurship, by passing laws and regulations which, quite frankly, swamp the SME’s.

One could probably live with the Companies Act, Closed Corporation Act, Income Tax Act (including VAT, fringe benefits and Capital gains), UIF Act and Skills Development Act, together with their encumbering onuses placed on the employer, because taxes like death are inevitable.

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