The Treasury has made a concession for people planning to emigrate by exempting those who submit applications before March 1 from a proposed rule preventing them from accessing their lump sum retirement funds before three consecutive years of being a tax resident of another country.

The concession was among a raft of proposed amendments announced by the Treasury and the SA Revenue Service (Sars) during a finance committee meeting on Tuesday...

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