PRETORIA, Monday, 22 January 2018 – The South African Revenue Service (SARS) is embarking on a nationwide awareness campaign to remind taxpayers of their obligation to submit outstanding tax returns.
The campaign kicked off in KwaZulu-Natal today. Other provinces will be covered over the next six weeks. During this campaign, SARS will share information on taxpayer obligations, the submission of tax returns, and consequences related to non-submission.
SARS would like to see higher levels of compliance across all tax types and prompt payment of tax debt. Taxpayers who do not submit their returns are charged a penalty, which can range from R250 to R16 000 per month, depending on the taxable income of the taxpayer. It is a criminal offence not to submit a return, and continuous non-compliance will lead to criminal prosecution.
SARS’ responsibility is to collect tax and customs duties on behalf of the country, and is committed to ensuring that each and every taxpayer pays their fair share towards the growth of our country. The Revenue Authority will be taking a tougher stance on those who do not submit their returns and deliberately seek to avoid their tax obligations.
SARS is equally committed to providing service and education to taxpayers who need assistance. Taxpayers are encouraged to call the SARS Contact Centre on 0800 00 7277 or to visit any of our branches with their taxpayer reference number at hand.
Student Advisor (Sales) – Durban Campus (Permanent) – SA-DBN01 Code/Reference:SA-DBN01 Applications accepted until:2018-01-31 Number of Openings:1 Campus/Business Unit:Vega School – Durban Campus Direct Reporting Line:Campus Principal
Job Purpose:
To achieve sales targets and implement campus sales and marketing initiatives and plans aimed at attracting students to register for graduate and post graduate qualifications as well as short learning programmes.
Responsible for initiating and managing relationships with prospective students at every stage of the recruitment process to get them to register for Vega qualifications and report on campus sales activity per set targets.
Requirements
Education:
Grade 12
Marketing degree or related qualification
Functional Competencies:
Customer service orientated
Target driven and ability to work well under pressure
Professional and confident
Excellent presentation skills
Outgoing and passionate
Good telephone etiquette
Proactive and highly self-motivated
Computer literacy
Ability to work as a team player and individually
Must be able to travel
Own transport is required
Work Experience:
Minimum:
One to two years’ sales experience.
Experience in managing and closing sales cycle.
Ideal:
Experience in working on a Customer Relationship Management software.
Experience in the higher education industry.
Key Performance Area:
Student Acquisition
Achieves sales targets set for qualifications and / or short learning programmes.
Plans and schedules visits to allocated/ agreed schools / universities.
Visits and delivers presentations to schools / universities as per the minimum requirements of x amount of schools per week, month and year.
Initiates appropriate sales drives and promotional activities on and off campus so as to convert enquiries into enrolments and thus meet student intake targets, annually.
Participates in campus promotional activities to promote graduate and post graduate studies to existing students including career fairs, open days etc.
Daily monitoring and assistance of website enquiries and applications telephonically and via email within an hour (during normal business hours, on weekdays), which aims to assist with sales targets per Student Advisor.
Daily participation and service delivery on tawk which ultimately aims to lead to converted student acquisition.
Creation of Student File containing the correct collation and generation of the respective documents required per student file, and ensuring the follow up of outstanding documentation of the student.
Relationship Management
Builds and manages relationships with students, prospective students and their parents at all relevant touchpoints during the application and / or enquiry process to the standards agreed.
Attends to queries from students / parents either face-to-face, telephonically or on line, within an hour (during normal business hours, on weekdays), ensuring that prospective students have a positive service experience.
Receives, evaluates and processes applications from prospective students.
Establishes and fosters productive relationships with teachers, principals, corporates and other relevant partners.
Ensures registration procedures are followed.
Conducts interviews with prospective students and provides feedback of those interviews.
Liaises with Academic Operations Co-Ordinator for acceptance letters, ensuring proper tracking of requests pending and letters issued.
Liaises with Student Relations Co-ordinator on student registrations.
Keeps records of student interaction and engagement and tracking telephone conversations and ensuring the hard copy file is updated and not only CRM tracking.
Sales Administration
Prepares sales figures and statistics as required.
Compiles reports as requested.
Follows up on payment for applications and registration deposits.
Reconciles paid applications with registrations.
Liaises with Academic support to ensure acceptance letters have been disseminated. Tracking letters sent versus those pending.
All online website enquires and applications to be sent a follow up email/s and receive courtesy telephone call.
All tawk prospects to receive the necessary documentation and follow up. Ensure adequate record keeping.
Ensuring student files are professional, up to date and contains on the respective student documentation, statement of results, ID, proof of payment, NBT paperwork and other documentation.
Working Conditions:
Campus Environment
Must be able to work on evenings and Saturdays when required
Equity Statement:
Preferably equity candidate.
Disclaimer Please note that only successful candidates will be contact within 14 days of applying, should you not hear from us in 14 days please consider your application unsuccessful.
According to Discovery Health CEO, Dr Jonathan Broomberg, efforts to curb fraud in the healthcare system resulted in R568m recovered on behalf of client schemes in 2017, compared to R405m in 2016. Further, fraud-control activities in which health professionals and others contemplating fraud desist from committing fraud in reaction to visible policing and action by Discovery Health, prevented additional fraud to the value of approximately R3bn over the last two years, adds Broomberg.
Discovery Health CEO, Dr Jonathan Broomberg
Discovery Health has invested substantially in fighting the scourge of healthcare fraud. Efforts include the deployment of a specialised team of over 100 analysts and professional investigators as well as a proprietary forensic software system that uses sophisticated algorithms to analyse claims data and identify any unusual claim patterns. Invaluable tip-offs from whistleblowers also help to identify fraud.
The volume of cases reported to the forensic unit continues unabated with the trends of the top offenders, provinces and types of offences remaining relatively unchanged. Gauteng (2,595), KZN (916) and the Western Cape (773) had the highest number of fraud cases reported in 2017 with the Northern Cape (5) having the least number of fraud cases reported in 2017.
Top offenders
The vast majority of healthcare providers are honest, hard-working, highly ethical people who deliver diligent care to their patients. However, analysis of forensic investigations reveals that a minority of healthcare professionals committed fraud against medical schemes, resulting in significant costs to schemes and their members. Discovery Health data also shows that general practitioners and pharmacies are amongst the top offenders while paediatricians and ophthalmologists had the lowest number of cases reported in 2017.
“Medical aids are not-for-profit entities, solely funded by member contributions. This means that schemes have finite resources from which to pay member claims. The burden of lost funds as a result of fraud would be significantly more serious in the absence of our rigorous approach to investigating potential fraudulent behaviour and dealing decisively with fraud when it is identified. Without this rigorous approach, fraud depletes the available pools of funds needed for healthcare treatment for members, and also drives up premiums,” explains Broomberg.
Types of offences perpetrated against medical schemes
The main offence in 2017 was claims submitted for services not rendered for medicines and medical devices never supplied. A common trend in 2017 involved pharmacies supplying members of medical schemes with non-claimable items such as baby formula, nappies, cosmetics and shoes yet submitting claims for prescription medicines. In other instances, medicines or services are supplied to non-members and are then claimed using a member’s medical aid card. Sometimes pharmacies or doctors dispense generic medicines, yet claim for higher cost original medicines.
Discovery Health has also exposed doctors who admit healthy patients to the hospital and submit false claims on their behalf to both their medical aid and to the member’s cash-plan (a lump sum, cash pay-out that helps to pay for any shortfall in hospital fees covered). The proceeds received by the “patient” are shared with those in the fraud syndicate.
Fraud threatens the future of healthcare
“Discovery Health has invested substantially in fighting the scourge of healthcare fraud. Although we have secured large recoveries as a result of our fraud avoidance efforts, we believe that this is only part of the story, and fraudulent activity and billing abuse most likely costs medical aid schemes several billion rands per year. These precious funds could be used to pay for the critical healthcare needs of our medical aid members,” explains Broomberg.
Alongside a host of other local medical aids and their administrators, Discovery Health is working closely with the South African Medical Association and other industry bodies to ensure zero tolerance for fraud, and to ensure that all offenders are brought to book. “As a criminal offence, healthcare fraud not only tarnishes the good name of honest health professionals but is a grave injustice against medical aid members, driving up premiums and depriving them of benefits,” adds Broomberg.
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JOHANNESBURG – President Jacob Zuma will no longer attend the inauguration of Liberian President-elect George Weah.
Instead, Water and Sanitation Minister, Nomvula Mokonyane, will represent him.
The inauguration will take place in Monrovia on Monday.
Earlier, Zuma praised the manner in which the elections were carried out in Liberia, ensuring a peaceful transfer of power from outgoing President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf.
