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18 June 2013
Legal Briefs
 
 
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17 Nov 2009
 
 
Fine for Telkom?
DENEYS REITZ
Consumers who may be looking forward to seeing Telkom being fined 10% of its annual turnover shouldn't hold their breath. Although the Competition Commission has referred complaints laid between...
 
 
Representation of Companies in Legal Proceedings
DENEYS REITZ
A company cannot conduct a case in our Superior Courts (the Constitutional Court, High Courts or Supreme Court of Appeal) except by the appearance of an admitted attorney or advocate on its behalf[1]
 
 
Pay now argue later — SARS shed some light for the taxpayer’s benefit
DENEYS REITZ
The Constitutional Court in Metcash Trading Ltd v The Commissioner: South African Revenue Service and the Minister of Finance (63 SATC 13), decided that the South African Revenue Service (SARS)...
 
 
11 Nov 2009
 
Provisional tax relief
DENEYS REITZ
Thanks to vigorous submissions by several organisations, recent amendments to the Income Tax Act have ameliorated the draconian and totally unrealistic provisions introduced last year relating to...
 
 
Estate duty abatement now portable between spouses
DENEYS REITZ
A welcome recent amendment to the Estate Duty Act gives spouses access to each other's estate duty abatements and eliminates the need for the artificial use of structures such as trusts to achieve...
 
 
03 Nov 2009
 
Simplification of skills development tax incentives for employers and employees
DENEYS REITZ
The South African Government has committed itself to ensuring the empowerment of those persons who were previously disadvantaged by our dark past. One way in which it has done so is by giving tax...
 
 
Medical contributions for retired employees
DENEYS REITZ
A recent insertion of section 12M into the Income Tax Act clarifies an uncertainty regarding the deductibility of retirement medical funding that in recent time has become increasingly common.
 
 
28 Oct 2009
 
Exemptions to bodies corporate and share block companies clarified
DENEYS REITZ
There has been great confusion in the property market whether the exemption provided to bodies corporate and share block companies, in respect of levies and income received by them, must be from...
 
 
 
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