Keeping the tow-truck industry honest
Category: Personal Insurance
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Keeping the tow-truck industry honest
Keeping the tow-truck industry honest We often see them parked near main intersections where crashes and bumper-bashing are the most prevalent, waiting almost vulture-like to swoop on their prey. They’re the souped-up ‘ready to roll’ brightly painted tow-trucks in an industry that is notorious for doing dodgy work, with drivers paying for tip-offs, driving dangerously…
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Wham. Bam. You’ve been scammed.
Wham. Bam. You’ve been scammed. Did you know that according to a recent report conducted by an insights agency, digital banking fraud in South Africa is at an all-time high and there’s been a steady increase in this trend over the last four years? And the numbers are disheartening to say the least. While there…
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Rest insured with your AirBNB
With the booming worldwide success of Airbnb, many local property owners have found it far more lucrative to rent out a property by the day than to have a long term tenant. Today, South Africa boasts in excess of 13 000 Airbnb ‘rentrepreneurs’, which host around 400 000 guests annually. But before you fluff up…
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How VAT increase impacts the insurance industry
How VAT increase impacts the insurance industry Let’s first take a hike back in time. In 1991, South Africa introduced Value Added Tax (VAT) to replace General Sales Tax (GST) as an indirect tax at a statutory rate of 10%, which increased to 14% in 1993. Fast forward 25 years. Facing a massive revenue shortfall…
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Make sure your cover is watertight
Make sure your cover is watertight Although DA leader Mmusi Maimane recently announced that the dreaded Day Zero drought situation will be moved forward to 2019, the water restrictions declared in 2016 remain in place, with personal use now limited to 50 litres per person per day. All these restrictions are undoubtedly having an adverse…