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C:SARS v Capitec: A case of VAT equilibrium?
In Commissioner for the South African Revenue Service v Capitec Bank Limited (94/2021) [2022] ZASCA 97 (21 June 2022) the Supreme Court of Appeal ruled that Capitec Bank Limited (‘Capitec’) could not deduct input tax in respect of loan cover payouts to borrowers. This...
Management fees: Is there a tax risk?
Managers who advise and manage the affairs of others, for example, their investments or businesses, often charge management fees for those services. This is not unusual or out of the ordinary. In a tax context, certain arrangements that are labelled as management...
Changes to the limitation on interest deductions
The reduction in South Africa’s corporate tax rate to 27% coincides with two base-broadening measures that come into effect at the same time as the reduced rate. I considered the changes to the utilisation of assessed losses in an earlier article. This article...
Revised rules for utilising tax losses carried forward
The reduction in the corporate tax rate to 27% triggers the effective dates for two sets of amendments made during 2021. One of these amendments relate to the utilisation of assessed losses carried forward by companies. This article provides a brief overview of the...
Tax proposals in the 2022 Budget Review
The National Treasury published the 2022 Budget Review on Wednesday 23 February 2022. Amongst others this document sets out the tax proposals for the year ahead. This article briefly highlights some of these proposals and announcements that affect corporate taxpayers....
VAT on temporary letting by residential property developers
Persons who develop residential property for purposes of selling it are often not able to immediately sell the property as intended. If they are unable to do so for extended periods of time, developers often resort to renting the property to tenants in the interim to...
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