by Pieter van der Zwan | Mar 14, 2024 | Value Added Tax
Registered VAT vendors can deduct input tax in respect of goods and services supplied to them. However, they may only deduct such input tax only if, or to the extent, that they acquired goods or services to use, consume or supply in the course of making taxable...
by Pieter van der Zwan | May 12, 2023 | Value Added Tax
Vendors may deduct input tax on goods or services acquired for purposes of making taxable supplies in the course of furtherance of their enterprise. This article considers a recent tax court judgment (case 1922) that dealt with input tax deducted by a...
by Pieter van der Zwan | Sep 21, 2022 | Corporate and business tax, Value Added Tax
There are many costs to raise funding for a business, whether debt or equity capital. These include raising fees, initiation fees, facility fees and charges relating to structuring the transaction, to mention a few. In this article, I consider a recent case that dealt...
by Pieter van der Zwan | Jul 19, 2022 | Value Added Tax
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...
