In May we celebrated Esmeralda’s birthday the Anlo way, with lots of cake, sparkles and love! If you ask her, she is 37 years old but to us, she doesn’t look a day older than 21, but with the wisdom and leadership of a life well lived. Thank you Esi, for everything you do and here is to another wonderful year for you.

We also raised money for slipper day at Anlo and here is a photo.

Annja and Roulon recently went to Accountex in London and it was amazing seeing the new developments that have happened since 2019, when we last visited. Regulations and governing bodies have made compliance for accountants stricter, but the standard of the accounting qualification is just getting better.

Now more than ever, the focus is on accountants helping businesses grow and helping the economy recover from what has been a very long hard period in everyone’s lives.

Esmerelda and I recently took ourselves on a week sabbatical to Dubai with our little girls, and it was AMAZING! Thank you to everyone that was patient with us during this time. We planned this break probably a year ago, with the hope that it will give us something to look forward to, and because of COVID and everything we kind of forgot about it because there was a chance we could not go, and we did not want to get our hopes up.

But we did manage to go, and it was so definitely needed. The break from the routine that has become a burden over the last 2 years was exactly what the doctor ordered. We swam in the sea and talked about the business’s future, about our hopes and dreams for ourselves, our families, and our business.

Written with Roulon du Toit

During the 2020 Budget Review, the government indicated that it intended to decrease the corporate tax rate by one percentage point from 28% to 27%. It has now been confirmed that this decrease will take place, effective for tax years ending on or after 31 March 2023. In other words, this will apply to any company whose tax year commences on or after 1 April 2022.