12/09/2021

Home office for tax purposes in South Africa

To determine your home office deduction, workers should calculate the total square meterage of their home office in relation to the total square meterage of your home and convert this to a percentage.

11/03/2021

Notices of objection: room for second chances?

The Tax Court Rules, do not explicitly address the question regarding whether, following delivery of an objection by a taxpayer, such objection can be amended to include new grounds of objection, thereby effectively granting the taxpayer a second bite at

11/01/2021

Improving Tax Collection

"This calls for a carefully calibrated set of policy and administrative measures that can grow revenues without discouraging investment."

09/29/2021

ENSafrica tax in brief

The primary issue in the appeal was whether SARS (as it contended and the Tax Court held) was precluded from granting approval for use of the transaction count ratio by vendor in respect of the period 1 March 2014 to 29 February 2016.

09/15/2021

Keep the Taxman in mind when liquidating

There are several tax considerations which need to be kept in mind by taxpayers where the business is in financial distress and is no longer able to operate, or once liquidation proceedings have commenced and compromises are entered into with creditors.