Pieter van der Zwan
& Associates
We specialize in South African tax and IFRS advice. Our clients get high-quality advice from an advisor with whom they can build a close long-term personal working relationship.
Services
We offer tailored South African tax solutions to our clients. Our clients can expect solutions that combine technical excellence and practical insight with the personal touch of a trusted advisor.
Corporate Tax Computations
We assist corporate taxpayers to prepare or review their income tax and deferred tax computations.
Tax Reviews
Proactive management and monitoring of your tax affairs avoids disputes and leakages. We perform reviews for corporates and high net-worth taxpayers.
Tax Disputes
We assist taxpayers and their accountants to successfully navigate the tax dispute process from responding to audit findings to appeals.
Tax Opinions
We provide clients with balanced and well-researched opinions on South African tax matters (including section 223(3) opinions).
Structuring and Advice
We assist taxpayers and advisors to assess the tax implications and risks of various alternatives for transactions and structures to ultimately find a tailored solution.
Correspondence with SARS
We assist taxpayers to obtain advance tax rulings, opinions, and directives from SARS.
Expertise
We advise on a wide range of South African tax matters.
Our areas of experience and expertise include:
Acquisition of businesses
Sale of shares or businesses
Corporate reorganisations
Financing arrangements
Investment funds
Wealth structures
Clients
We aim to build a long-term working relationship with each client. Our regular clients are:
SMEs and their owners
Corporates
International groups
Investment funds
High-net worth individuals
Family trusts
Accountants and auditors
Law firms
Financial planners
Prof Pieter van der Zwan
Pieter is a chartered accountant (CA(SA)) who holds a master’s degree in tax. He is an associate professor at a South African university where he is responsible for a master’s degree in tax. He is the author of chapters in various textbooks, peer-reviewed articles, and articles in industry publications. He has been practicing as an independent tax and technical accounting advisor since 2010. He serves on technical committees of various professional bodies.
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Tax proposals in the 2020 Budget Review
The National Treasury published its annual Budget Review on 26 February 2020 (‘the Budget Review’). The above-inflation proposed adjustments to the progressive tax brackets, rather than anticipated increases in tax rates, surprised many commentators. Chapter 4 and...
Timing of tax deductions for customer loyalty scheme costs
Section 24C of the Income Tax Act provides an allowance for certain obligations to incur expenditure in future. The Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) delivered its judgment in the matter between C:SARS v Clicks Retailers (Pty) Ltd (‘the Clicks case’), which related to the...
Broadened anti-dividend stripping tax rules
The National Treasury announced in the 2019 Budget Review that the anti-dividend stripping rules will be amended to apply to certain dilutive arrangements that undermined these rules. The Taxation Laws Amendment Bill of 2019, which was introduced in Parliament on 30...
The amended foreign employment income exemption
Since 2000, when South Africa changed from a source-based to a residence-based tax system, South African residents earning employment income for services rendered outside South Africa enjoyed an exemption of such income if: the person spend more than 183 days outside...
Valuation of trading stock for tax purposes
A number of cases dealing with the valuation of trading stock have been considered by the courts in recent years. In C:SARS v Volkswagen SA (Pty) Ltd (‘VWSA case’) the SCA held that net realisable value (NRV), as determined for accounting purposes, does not reflect...
Proposed tax amendments for 2019
The draft Taxation Laws Amendment Bill for 2019 (draft TLAB) was published by the National Treasury on 21 July 2019. The draft bill contains proposals for amendments to be made as part of the 2019 legislative cycle. This article briefly reviews a selection of the...
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