Dear Subscriber,

If you missed the presentation on the New SCA judgment on interest-free loans that was held at the beginning of October, you can now purchase the presentation notes. The expert panel of presenters at this event consisted of Dr Emil Brincker, Prof Henry Vorster, Arthur Schoeman and Daniel Erasmus.

The New SCA Judgment presentation notes details information such as:

• Will SARS misapply the very latest SCA judgment (Brummeria Judgment) on interest-free loans accruing imputed interest?
• What were the special facts of the SCA case?
• How may SARS seek to misapply the case?
• What is your defense?
• How can business avoid the 7 Habitual Tax Mistakes in defending their positions?
• Analysis of the judgment with reference to life rights
• Practical considerations on the judgment

These presentation notes will be made available in eBOOK format by TAXtalk, and costs R260.00 excl VAT.

TAXtalk subscribers can purchase the notes at a 50% discount.

Our online payment facility is not yet available to purchase the eBook by credit card, so you will have to make manual payments to get your copy in the meantime ...

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5. Your own personal copy of the eBook will be sent to you

Tax Issues
Discourse with SARS is primarily about facts. Adv.Pierre du Toit, tax consultant at KPMG, discussed this on Tax Issues, broadcast on Summit TV (DSTV channel 55) at 20h40 & 22h40 on Wednesday evenings and at 7h30 on Thursday mornings.

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Janine Connor
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Pierre du Toit tax consultant at KPMG

Discourse with SARS is primarily about facts. Pierre du Toit, tax consultant at KPMG, discussed this on Tax Issues, broadcast on Summit TV.

Pierre suggested that, in discourse with SARS, taxpayers too often sallied forth with legal argument, forgetting that the law can only work for them if applied to the actual facts of their case. When they are forced back to facts, they find that what they thought were facts were something else, or that they cannot prove them.

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The publics response to the South African Revenue Services (SARS) call on tax returns is satisfying but nowhere near what is desired, SARS said on Monday.

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Available tax jobs for this week are:

Ine-Lize Terblanche, senior tax manager at PricewaterhouseCoopers

The current business climate is one of constant change. As the tax functions of companies are being challenged to comply with the increasing rate of regulatory pronouncements, some have been caught short by internal control deficiencies and resource shortages, even compelled to restate financial and tax information.

TAXtalk Magazine

Dr John Barker of the Lauterpacht Research Centre for International Law at the University of Cambridge shared some observations on good governance in an address at the conference of the Pan African Lawyers Union in Abuja, Nigeria some time ago.

Adam Samie,CEO,Lion of Africa Insurance Company

Life may be a highway, but it’s getting more expensive to get there, as insurers hike vehicle insurance costs to cover increasing risk. Surely we can’t all be road hogs so what are some of the causes that are leading to the higher costs.

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