- Title
- Comparison of taxation reforms regarding retirement funding between South Africa and the United Kingdom
- Creator
- Kruger, Leander
- Subject
- Pension trusts -- Law and legislation -- South Africa Pension trusts -- Law and legislation -- Great Britain
- Subject
- Taxation -- Law and legislation -- South Africa Taxation -- Law and legislation -- Great Britain Pensions -- Law and legislation -- South Africa Pensions -- Law and legislation -- Great Britain
- Date Issued
- 2017
- Date
- 2017
- Type
- Thesis
- Type
- Masters
- Type
- LLM
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10948/18200
- Identifier
- vital:28588
- Description
- The purpose of this study was to review the provision of public and private retirement funding in both South Africa and the United Kingdom and the role of taxation in encouraging greater private provision for retirement. The study described the basis of taxation and determination of ‘taxable income’ in each jurisdiction, before addressing the relationship between taxation and retirement funding in each jurisdiction respectively. Both jurisdictions have introduced significant reforms of their systems of retirement funding and these reforms were accordingly addressed in the present research. The study compared the two jurisdictions based on the above mentioned areas to determine similarities or differences. The study concluded with recommendations, these being that South Africa should assess the feasibility of providing greater State provided retirement funding by possibly including a mandatory contribution, such as that used by the UK for its single-tier flat rate New State Pension. A further recommendation was that South Africa should encourage greater provision of private retirement funding by considering even greater tax deductions for contributions.
- Format
- vii, 68 leaves
- Format
- Publisher
- Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University
- Publisher
- Faculty of Law
- Language
- English
- Rights
- Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University
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