For any business paying the 1% Skills Development Levy (SDL), the Skills Development Facilitator (SDF) is the most critical link between your company and your SETA. Many businesses are unaware that appointing and registering an SDF is a mandatory requirement  to claim any SETA grants. If you have not formally appointed an SDF, you cannot submit your WSP/ATR, and you will forfeit your 20% Mandatory Grant rebate. What is the Role of an SDF? The SDF is your company's official co

If your company's annual payroll exceeds R500,000, you are required to pay a 1% Skills Development Levy (SDL) to SARS every month. Many business owners view this as just another tax. However, this 1% levy is a strategic investment vehicle, and you are entitled to get a significant portion of it back. The SETA system is designed to give you this money back through two different "pots": Mandatory Grants and Discretionary Grants. Understanding the difference is critical to maxim

For South African businesses, the annual B-BBEE verification cycle is filled with complex targets. But no deadline is more critical, or more dangerous to miss, than the 30 April submission  of your Workplace Skills Plan (WSP) and Annual Training Report (ATR) to your relevant SETA. Failing to meet this single deadline is not a minor administrative slip-up; it is a catastrophic commercial error that triggers a devastating chain of consequences known as the "triple penalty". The