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Are higher taxes on wealthy South Africans justified?

By Janice Roberts at New Media
18 January 2018 • 1 min read

Ruaan Van Eeden, Managing Director of Tax and Exchange Control at ‎Geneva Management Group

Talk of a potential wealth tax in South Africa has re-ignited the debate on the taxation of high net-worth individuals (HNWIs). For many taxpayers around the world, progressive taxes – in which the more one earns, the higher the rate of taxation – contradicts the principal of equality. In fact, it is this thinking that is behind the recent tax amendments in the USA, where the passing of new legislation will attempt to ease the tax burden on many of the country’s wealthiest, coupled with a reduction of corporate tax rates. (more…)


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