
With only weeks until South Africa’s 2013/2014 budget is tabled in parliament, this edition of e-taxline clarifies two changes introduced by Finance Minister, Pravin Gordhan, [Read More]

Basis of taxation South African residents are taxed on their worldwide income. Non-South African residents are taxed on their South African sourced income. A company [Read More]

With the introduction of the new Dividends Tax (DT), which is effective from 1 April 2012, companies should be aware of the underlying compliance requirements [Read More]

The announcement in the Minster of Finance’s Budget Speech on 22 February 2012 that Dividends Tax (DT) would be introduced at a rate of 15% [Read More]

This article first appeared in Business Report on 23 February 2012 By Hylton Cameron, executive tax manager, Grant Thornton Johannesburg We all knew that paying [Read More]

Overall Budget 2012 / 2013 comments “Trusts continue to be hammered in respect of Capital Gains Tax which does not bode well for wealth creation.” [Read More]

The introduction of the new dividends tax (DWT), coming into effect from 1 April this year, will require that dividend tax is paid to SARS [Read More]

The Taxation Laws Amendment Act of 2010 has removed the Secondary Tax on Companies (STC) liquidation exemption with effect from 1 January 2011, which leaves [Read More]

As part of the Dividends Tax reform process a new tax, to be known as Value Extraction Tax (“VET”) will come into effect. The VET [Read More]