"What I like about the industry is that the world is now waking up to the idea of financing movies. The old model of Production risk - Distribution risk seem destined to be only the realm of the very large budget movies.
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Philip Copeman replied to Dirk de Vos's discussion The Day the Movies Died in the group Cape Town Film Producers Forum
Philip Copeman replied to Ardi Coetzee's discussion Free PREMIUM MarketDock.com account for Silicon Cape members"I did like this - spent about 10 monuites on this. If you are serious contact me., I have been looking for a facility liek this for some time for 100 000 TurboCASH users.
There are some hoops to jump through, but a deal may be possible."
Philip Copeman posted a blog postIndependent leaders make Cloud offering for Accounting
San Fransisco, 26 October 2009: GoPC.net the world's leading independent provider of Cloud Computing and Cape based TurboCASH Accounting, the world's leading Open Source Accounting package for small business have jumped in ahead of industry giants and announced the first entry level Accounting SaaS solution for Cloud computing.Graeme Speak, CEO/Founder of GoPC.net made the announcement, “The roll out with TurboCASH is a truly exciting development. GoPC.net has been pioneering next generation…See More
Philip Copeman commented on Philip Copeman's blog post South Africa already has the best IT tax investment incentives in the World"Andrew - I think we are on the same side here.
My emphasis on "coding" comes from my experience that the markets that seem to work, seem to have a far greater percentage of participants that are computer (programming) literate. What I…"
Ebrahim Khan commented on Philip Copeman's blog post South Africa already has the best IT tax investment incentives in the World"Hi Philip,
I think you have it slightly wrong about our culture. We have pretty smart guys running significant businesses like yourself locally & abroad.
If i can share something with you, Cape Town & SA culture actually attracts foreign…"
Andrew Thomas-Woolf commented on Philip Copeman's blog post South Africa already has the best IT tax investment incentives in the World"Just a thought in response to this:
"President van Buuren inthe depth of one of the ninteenth Centurioes worst depressions, said "The people are inclined to wnat too mcuh from theor governement, it should not be so". Stop worrying…"
Philip Copeman commented on Philip Copeman's blog post South Africa already has the best IT tax investment incentives in the World"Hi Ebrahim
The TurboCASH project runs in 80 different tax regimes. Most of them have less incentives than us. Yetr it is ironinv that we start in teh Capem but the controibutiosn are increasingly comming form off shore.
The Venfin guys (Winny,…"
Ebrahim Khan commented on Philip Copeman's blog post South Africa already has the best IT tax investment incentives in the World"Hello Philip,
I envisage your post touches on a component of the bigger picture. Tax rebates is one aspect of developing local industry & attracting FDI. My competencies lie within the FDI space in the ICT framework. Based on my understanding…"
Philip Copeman commented on Philip Copeman's blog post South Africa already has the best IT tax investment incentives in the World"What I am proposing is that we push for the Australian system, so that the developer - who can't use the allowance, because typically she has no sales or profit, can get a rebate paid out as opposed to a dedcution. This is a small change to an…"
Andrew Thomas-Woolf commented on Philip Copeman's blog post South Africa already has the best IT tax investment incentives in the World"Re: "cash" via s11D incentives: the allowance is only effective to the extent that the R&D is being funded either directly within the entity conducting the R&D or via a tax-transparent structure with investors in tax paying…"
Andrew Thomas-Woolf commented on Philip Copeman's blog post South Africa already has the best IT tax investment incentives in the World"Hi Philip,
I don't think that the intention ever was to aim only at tax, let alone tax **incentives**. In fact, the tax issue most highly prioritised internally prior to the launch event was removing the impact of s8C's collateral…"
Philip Copeman commented on Philip Copeman's blog post South Africa already has the best IT tax investment incentives in the World"Its a bit out of date, but show your accountant this:
http://www.box.co.za/wiki/index.php/OSR
Tell me if I can help you interpret it in some way.
This main thrust of my article is that Rupert and Lingham are chasing something here that already…"
James Micklem commented on Philip Copeman's blog post South Africa already has the best IT tax investment incentives in the World"Just to add to my comment above, I guess what you're saying is that there are tax incentives for IT investment and what I'm saying is that there don't seem to be tax breaks for small IT enterprises."
James Micklem commented on Philip Copeman's blog post South Africa already has the best IT tax investment incentives in the World"I'm no expert on Section 11(D), but every time we ask our accountants "..can we save tax by doing this?" the answer is something like "No, SARS doesn't allow that...".
I'd dearly love to know a way we could pay…"
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Independent leaders make Cloud offering for Accounting
San Fransisco, 26 October 2009: GoPC.net the world's leading independent provider of Cloud Computing and Cape based TurboCASH Accounting, the world's leading Open Source Accounting package for small business have jumped in ahead of industry giants and announced the first entry level Accounting SaaS solution for Cloud computing.
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Posted on October 29, 2009 at 9:30
South Africa already has the best IT tax investment incentives in the World
“South Africa already has the best IT tax investment incentives in the World.” This is the opinion of Philip Copeman, Project leader of the TurboCASH Accounting project. Copeman is responding to the call by Johan Rupert and Vinny Lingham of the Silicon Cape initiative for a tax-free zone. “It is not a change of tax legislation that we require, but a change of attitude”, said Copeman.
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Posted on October 16, 2009 at 0:58 — 12 Comments
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- At 16:57 on October 13, 2009,
Richard Lackey said… - Hi Philip,
Nice! Thanks for joining, I was beginning to think there was no one out there. I'll get back to you tomorrow, I'm just about to leave the office but I wanted to connect now and say hi!
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