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Proposed retirement reforms : are tax concessions sufficient to entice South Africans to save for retirement?
Mini Dissertation (MCom)--University of Pretoria, 2015.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/52993 Proposed retirement reforms : are tax concessions sufficient to entice South Africans to save for retirement? Hill, T. (Tanya) marilizemoolman@gmail.com Moolman, Marilize UCTD Mini Dissertation (MCom)--University of Pretoria, 2015. The government is concerned about the fact that South Africans are currently not saving enough towards retirement. Inadequate provision for retirement has a negative impact on the financial independence of retired citizens and leaves them reliant on the government or family for support. This prevents family members from saving for their own retirement and increases the burden on taxpayers to fund government grants for the elderly. In order to motivate South Africans to save more for their retirement, the Minister of Finance, in his 2013 budget speech, proposed improved retirement savings tax incentives. The aim of this study was to determine whether South Africans are aware of the proposed increases in retirement tax incentives and whether these incentives would be sufficient to encourage them to either start saving or save more for retirement. The literature review conducted for the purpose of this study revealed that all the relevant existing research is of an international nature and was undertaken after changes to tax incentives had been implemented. This study was conducted from a South African perspective and focused on the likely effect of proposed changes to tax incentives still to be implemented. The inquiry strategy that was followed was survey research by way of structured face-toface interviews with 20 participants, based on their responses to eight questions asked in a questionnaire. The purpose of this research was to develop an understanding of the relationship between changes in tax incentives and savings behaviour, and not to solve the problem caused by South Africans failure to save sufficiently for retirement. The study is therefore basic in nature. This is an empirical study since primary data was collected specifically for this research project. The data represents the participants responses at a specific point in time and therefore the study is cross-sectional. The study is nonexperimental as no predictions were made with regard to the outcome of the research questions asked. Based on the answers collected during the interviews, it can be concluded that although people are generally not aware of the proposed changes, these changes in the tax incentives relating to retirement funds would indeed encourage them to start saving more. Taxation MCom Unrestricted 2016-06-09T12:59:45Z 2016-06-09T12:59:45Z 2016-04-08 2015 Mini Dissertation Moolman, M 2015, Proposed retirement reforms : are tax concessions sufficient to entice South Africans to save for retirement?, MCom Mini Dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd <http://hdl.handle.net/2263/52993> A2016 http://hdl.handle.net/2263/52993 en © 2016 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria. application/pdf University of Pretoria |
| spellingShingle | UCTD Proposed retirement reforms : are tax concessions sufficient to entice South Africans to save for retirement? |
| title | Proposed retirement reforms : are tax concessions sufficient to entice South Africans to save for retirement? |
| title_full | Proposed retirement reforms : are tax concessions sufficient to entice South Africans to save for retirement? |
| title_fullStr | Proposed retirement reforms : are tax concessions sufficient to entice South Africans to save for retirement? |
| title_full_unstemmed | Proposed retirement reforms : are tax concessions sufficient to entice South Africans to save for retirement? |
| title_short | Proposed retirement reforms : are tax concessions sufficient to entice South Africans to save for retirement? |
| title_sort | proposed retirement reforms are tax concessions sufficient to entice south africans to save for retirement |
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