The Minister of Finance released a media statement in the early hours of today, 24 April 2025, announcing that the VAT rate would be maintained at 15%.

It was recently announced that Andersen South Africa had signed up a group of prominent practitioners in the tax and funds space.

Historically, the processing of ore was a contentious issue from a diesel refund perspective, due to the various interpretations held by SARS and industry participants in the diesel refund scheme.

Tax series | holding IP assets offshore- IP, Tax, and exchange control considerations.

The MLI will not function in the same way as an amending protocol to a bilateral double tax agreement (DTA) which directly amends the text of the specific DTA. Instead,...

In South Africa, we are privileged not to have to pay inheritance tax on the benefits received from a deceased estate. In many countries such as the United Kingdom citizens must pay an inheritance tax...

According to the announcement issued by the Rwanda Revenue Authority ("RRA") on December 13, 2019, the applications for quitus fiscal in relation to the fiscal year 2020 are open from today (December 16, 2019).

The South Africa Revenue Service (SARS) is intensifying its efforts to recover tax debts from South Africans across the board as part of a new initiative...

Welcome back to all of you! January has come and gone and we are well on our way into 2022!

Below, please find issue 47 of ENSafrica's tax in brief, a snapshot of the latest tax developments in South Africa.

With the tax season currently underway in South Africa, here's all you need to know about the Third Party Appointment process and how it could affect you.

It is important to avoid an unfair detrimental impact on the rights of those whose transactions were legal at the time they were arranged.

Recently, we have been asked to consider an often overlooked VAT exposure, namely, the potential taxable supplies involved in low or nil cost intra-group financing and security transactions.

In the culmination of a widely followed case, on 1 October 2014 the Supreme Court of Appeal ordered the South African Reserve Bank (SARB) to repay Mark Shuttleworth over R250 million plus interest.

In a statement issued on 12 October 2013, the South African Ministry of Finance announced that South Africa will work closer with the UK to tackle offshore tax evasion, and that South Africa will join the pilot scheme for automatic exchange of tax information launched by the UK, along with France, Germany, Italy and Spain.

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On 8 February 2021 the Minister of Employment and Labour, Thembelani Waltermade Nxesi, published a Government Gazette

Heightened security, a great sense of community, lower insurance costs and shared maintenance costs are a few of the advantages associated with Sectional Title developments...

South African companies with international operations face a unique challenge in the management and structuring of the ownership and use of intellectual property in their international operations.

The blockchain and cryptocurrency sector provides excellent opportunities for tax revenue generation and employment growth.