Recent content by koeks525

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    South African Expats: When Did You "Rip the Band-Aid Off"

    Going through this exercise tonight. Selling off everything. I did trigger some sales on Friday. ETFs, stocks and crypto... all going, going, gone.
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    South African Expats: When Did You "Rip the Band-Aid Off"

    I fortunately do not have immovable assets of any type in South Africa; just a lot of liquid assets like cash, ETFs/Stocks and the retirement fund. My thinking over the years was not to pick up any immovable assets as they are a pain to dissolve AND, I might move (which happened).
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    South African Expats: When Did You "Rip the Band-Aid Off"

    This is interesting. I read about the 3 year rule. Did you also have to produce a certificate from SARS proving you no longer a tax resident of South Africa? Or did they accept the information you provided?
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    South African Expats: When Did You "Rip the Band-Aid Off"

    Hey everyone, While filing my final tax return with SARS, I got a chance to zone-in on my finances (both what is left in South Africa and what I have here with me in Canada) and it got me thinking about what I really want long term. After much thought, considering the fact I have now passed 1...
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    Discovery and their insane price increase

    Pretty sad to see the cost of medical coverage in South Africa shoot up, while the quality of care and product offerings get more complicated and shittier. From my understanding, this is only possible because the private healthcare market in ZAF operates in a mostly unregulated space. There are...
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    Difficulties with Filing Taxes as a Non-Resident Through SARS eFiling: Anyone Else Go Through This

    Yes this true. The Common Reporting Standard that many countries are signatories, does allow for different tax authorities to exchange information with each other. However, one could argue that such authorities dont know what they dont know. Why go after the average joe when you can chase high...
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    Difficulties with Filing Taxes as a Non-Resident Through SARS eFiling: Anyone Else Go Through This

    Hi everyone, I want to find out if other South Africans, who emigrated from South Africa in the middle of a tax year, experienced trouble submitting their taxes (presumably your last tax return). When I open the eFiling wizard, I get the Form Wizard for Non-Resident, but no employer...
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    The Personal Development & Financial Independence Thread

    In Metro Vancouver. I am starting to like it here - the first year was stressful because I felt super vulnerable. I feel that I can move with confidence now, having survived the first year.
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    The Personal Development & Financial Independence Thread

    I am also a millennial but I have held 5 jobs now. I will say my story is complicated, having jumped countries in the last year. I have learnt a lot about life in North America in the time I have been up here. I am definitely loved up here; people are rooting for me. The first year was scary...
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    Kulula and BA’s Boeing 737 Max 8 planes – “We remain vigilant”

    Oh man, I was wondering why an old thread was being revived, knowing that most of the Boeing 737 Max 8 dust had settled.
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    What is driving the current “anti alcohol” rhetoric online

    I do not think that alcohol sales are falling because people are choosing to opt out of it. Rather, I think that alcohol has gotten really expensive nowadays. In Canada, a glass of cheap wine can go for $15, while a good glass of wine sits at $20+. Yeah social media influencers love shitting...
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    ESP launches South Africa's "live status page"

    Probably this. I wonder if they also observe official Twitter or Facebook accounts of the municipalities? I recall that City of Cape Town had a power alerts account that would post about locations where water or electricity was currently down, or scheduled to be taken offline.
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    How's Tinder these days?

    So so lucky! Enjoy the good vibes!
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    MTN South Africa plans to cut costs by between R4 billion and R6 billion over the next three years

    It seems like nowadays, many companies are creating value by eating themselves up instead of innovating & investing towards growth. Laying employees off in favour of automated services, or offshoring to cheaper labour markets seems to be how value is created. At some point, I imagine there won't...
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    Does anyone still use LinkedIn?

    Hehehe. "Only successful candidates will be contacted". Then a LinkedIn post about how people are applying the wrong way.
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