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Supreme Court ruling favours Woolworths in VAT dispute with Sars

In a significant win for taxpayers on the South African Revenue Service’s (Sars) “narrow” approach to the ability to claim input Value-Added Tax (VAT), the Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) recently ruled ...
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How VAT registration delays are costing the economy and what Sars should do about it

South Africa’s fiscus needs every rand in tax revenue it can get, but potentially lucrative revenue streams are out of reach because tax registration snarl-ups prevent would-be taxpayers from ...
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SARS gets going with VAT modernisation

Two years after the South African Revenue Service (SARS) began work to modernise the value-added tax (VAT) system, the agency is preparing to release a consultation paper “in due course”. This follows ...
businesstech.co.za

SARS issues new mandatory requirement for businesses in South Africa

South African VAT vendors have been reminded of the new compliance rules, which include mandatory VAT apportionment reporting to SARS. This is according to tax experts at ENS, Africa’s largest law ...
Htxt.Africa

SARS tells locals to check they aren’t being charged a 15.5% VAT rate

Last week, at the last possible moment, the Ministry of Finance announced that the proposed 0.5 percentage point increase of VAT would no longer be happening. The lateness of the announcement means ...