Foreign hires can grow your practice or expose it.
In South Africa’s post-greylist reality, hiring a foreign national isn’t just an HR step, it’s a financial crime compliance event. Every passport, visa, and background check you skip becomes a risk waiting to surface. Regulators are asking: Do you really know who’s on your payroll?
This practical guide breaks down how to protect your firm. From verification and recordkeeping to staff training and real-world risk control. Before you sign that next contract, make sure your compliance file is ready.

While many see SARS’s expedited tax-debt compromise as a quick fix, CIBA sees a once-in-a-decade opportunity to transform how South Africa manages tax debt. Beyond settling liabilities, this initiative could empower practitioners, streamline processes, and rebuild trust between taxpayers and the revenue service. CIBA’s proposals envision a coordinated national framework, practical training, legal safeguards, and equitable procurement, turning a temporary relief measure into a sustainable system reboot. For accountants, advisers, and small firms, this isn’t just policy, it’s a chance to professionalise, protect, and profit from the very work that keeps the tax system running.

📞 “Can I sue him? Do I have to pay this? Is this contract enforceable?”

If you’re an accountant in South Africa, you’ve heard these questions. And maybe — in the heat of a client crisis — you’ve even answered them. But here’s the brutal truth: the second you step from accounting into legal advice, you’re not protecting your client. You’re exposing yourself — to lawsuits, PI insurance refusals, even disciplinary action.

Yes, tax practitioners have a narrow statutory carve-out. But beyond that line? It’s dangerous ground.

👉 Read the full article: When Accounting Advice Becomes Legal Advice.

If your client’s bookkeeper blows the whistle tomorrow, are you ready?

Half of all fraud worldwide isn’t caught by auditors, it’s exposed by whistleblowers. In South Africa, speaking up can end careers… or worse.

For CBAPs, that risk isn’t abstract. Weak protections mean fraud scandals quickly land on your desk with reputational damage, compliance fallout, and lost clients.

👉 Read how CIBA is fighting for whistleblower protection and why helping SMEs build safe reporting systems could become your next billable service.

When a client loses their job or their domestic worker shows up in tears, they don’t want legal jargon or generic advice, they want answers that work. UIF claims can be a maze, and most people get it wrong. This guide shows you exactly who qualifies, when to act, what forms you need, and how to turn UIF support into a billable, high-impact service. Whether you're helping a struggling employee or advising an employer on their compliance obligations, this is how you prove your worth and get paid for it.