South African taxpayers face another round of tax hikes in 2026, with the National Treasury’s plan to collect an additional R20 billion in tax revenue contingent on the success of SARS’s collection ...

The fine line between supplying a service to the state and receiving grant funding is critical in determining the correct value-added tax (Vat) treatment – and misjudging it can be extremely costly. A ...

The SARS VAT system has not been substantially upgraded in over a decade. Two years after the South African Revenue Service (SARS) began work to modernise the value-added tax (VAT) system, the agency ...

Live Science spoke with leading epidemiologist Michael Osterholm about his new book, "The Big One," which discusses the next pandemic and how to mitigate its harm. When you purchase through links on ...

Scientists have discovered a previously unknown virus in farmed Pacific oysters during a mass die-off in B.C., Canada. The discovery serves as a reminder that growers should exercise caution when ...

In late 2019, an unknown coronavirus made the leap from animals to humans. That incident might have gone unnoticed—except that the virus was able to infect human cells, replicate, and spread rapidly ...

In a significant win for taxpayers on the South African Revenue Service’s (Sars) “narrow” approach to the ability to claim input Value-Added Tax (VAT), the Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) recently ruled ...

In a significant development for South African consumers and businesses, the Commissioner of the South African Revenue Service (SARS), Edward Kieswetter, has welcomed the formal court order that ...

An alternative to Paxlovid, the only antiviral pills approved by the US Food and Drug Administration to treat COVID-19, is on the horizon. Pfizer—the maker of Paxlovid—has begun Phase 3 clinical ...

Five years ago, the world stopped turning. In late 2019, a virus emerged in Wuhan, China, and within weeks, it took hold across the earth. Soon, the novel coronavirus became known as SARS-CoV-2, and ...

President Trump’s order asks federal agencies to look at how to use tariffs to match existing duties from other nations. Photo: Andrew Harnik/Getty Images President Trump on Thursday directed federal ...