Recent content by trijonb

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    Switching from Sole Prop to Company

    Great answer and explanation, thanks a lot, appreciate that. Out of interest, does SA have any rules on setting of owners "wages" or shareholder salaries (if you are doing the drawings approach)? Some countries require these to be set at a "reasonable" level wrt market wages. I ask because...
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    Switching from Sole Prop to Company

    Great - thanks very much - I thought there was something like this to it. Any reason why you would max out the 41% bracket as a salary and then take the rest out as dividends, rather than a lower bracket and increase the dividend portion?
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    Switching from Sole Prop to Company

    Out of interest, what do you mean by "sole trader" bracket?
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    Switching from Sole Prop to Company

    Thanks a lot - re: operating expenses, yes I understand / know this. My understanding with at Pty Ltd structure was that you could either: 1) declare an annual wage / salary 2) Take drawings and then declare a shareholder salary to cover these at EOFY 3) Do a combination of the above in...
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    Switching from Sole Prop to Company

    Hi, Apart from the other usual pro's / con's of running your business as a Pty Ltd, when is it more tax efficient to operate as a Pty Ltd instead of a sole trader? Is it as simple as when your personal effective (or marginal?) tax rate exceeds the company tax rate? I've hunted around but...
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    Old Radio / radar dishes on Umhlanga Ridge (1980's / 90's)

    Yeah, was going to add a subpage for the South African / SADF implementation to that :thumbsup:
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    Old Radio / radar dishes on Umhlanga Ridge (1980's / 90's)

    Were you involved :p? You seem to have a lot of info! There seems to have been a number of similar installations around the world (similar tech) in the 1980's, similar hardware used in Canada. Thinking i might add a Wikipedia page ...
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    Old Radio / radar dishes on Umhlanga Ridge (1980's / 90's)

    https://www.saairforce.co.za/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=7531 http://img.geocaching.com/cache/b7b79192-47ef-4c46-b721-c48e22ed8d71.jpg A couple of pictures and info
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    Old Radio / radar dishes on Umhlanga Ridge (1980's / 90's)

    Shucks - thanks a lot man, yes, that's them. Thanks for sharing / finding that. Yeah, i guess thats what it was so hard to find out what they were , but they were large enough to see above the hill line, so they couldnt hide those dishes out of practicality. So i guess the Durban Umhlanga part...
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    Old Radio / radar dishes on Umhlanga Ridge (1980's / 90's)

    Cool, thanks a lot, that must be the name "Umdloti Signal Base" , at least we / i have something to google now. thanks!
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    Old Radio / radar dishes on Umhlanga Ridge (1980's / 90's)

    yeah, thanks - i will check further out on google maps. perhaps i was looking too close to umhlanga. yeah, interesting, very hard to find anything about them, i cant even find a solitary picture on the internet - not one! thanks though, would be interesting to know what they were for / doing...
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    Old Radio / radar dishes on Umhlanga Ridge (1980's / 90's)

    hi - thanks for the reply. Unfortunately, no not these ones - the ones i was thinking of were massive - prob 100 - 150ft in diameter, and naval grey in color
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    Old Radio / radar dishes on Umhlanga Ridge (1980's / 90's)

    Does anyone remember / know / have any photos of the old 'radar' / telecom dishes (there used to be x2 giant ones) which used to be visible on Umhlanga Ridge in Durban? We used to visit my grandmother out that way in the 1980's / 90's and i distinctly remember seeing x2 massive parabolic dishes...
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