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            <title>Five export VAT misconceptions: What are VAT vendors still getting wrong about zero-rating?</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Value-Added Tax (VAT) may be regarded as a familiar and well-established tax, but its legislative and administrative requirements continue to develop. This year alone the South African Revenue Service (SARS) has already issued several formal VAT amendments and Interpretation Notes as guidance, to provide clarity and enhance compliance.  Yet, one area that continues to present challenges for VAT vendors is when they may apply zero-rate to VAT on their exports. ]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[Give us engineers. Over the past five years, that has been the constant refrain from companies across South Africa. According to findings from prior annual Xpatweb Critical Skills Surveys up to 2025, corporates needed chemical and mechanical engineers; they searched for electrical and maintenance engineers and turned to international recruiting to find industrial and mining engineers. ]]></description>
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            <title>It is your money. Moving It offshore is your choice - But staying within the exchange control ...</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[You have earned your money. You are entitled to use it at your discretion, including buying an upmarket apartment in a buzzing global city, diversifying an investment portfolio by increasing offshore exposure, or moving funds abroad to hedge against local currency fluctuations. It sounds straightforward enough. ]]></description>
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            <title>SARS wins 150% penalty case against taxpayer who incorrectly claimed farming expenses</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The South African Revenue Service’s (“SARS”) strategy is well established: make it easy and cost-effective for taxpayers to comply with their obligations, and difficult and costly for those who do not. On 11 August 2026, another taxpayer faced this costly reality and felt the pain of claiming a farming expense deduction that should never have been attempted. SARS initially refunded the taxpayer to the tune of approximately R1.38-million, based on an incorrectly submitted tax return. The taxpayer thought she was in the clear. But then SARS, through its enhanced AI capabilities, picked up the risk assessment and investigated. SARS asked for proof of the farming assets, only to be told that no farming operation existed and no equipment had been purchased. ]]></description>
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            <title>Winning the battle, but fighting the war against SARS is far from over</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The recent Tax Court judgment in Taxpayer KG (Pty) Ltd v Commissioner for the South African Revenue Service (IT 46515 and VAT 22578) [2026] ZATC JHB is another stark example of how tax litigation becomes a battle of procedure before the underlying tax dispute is ever resolved. And all the while, legal costs continue to mount. Tax litigation is often viewed as the ultimate mechanism for resolving a dispute with the South African Revenue Service (“SARS”). Where the parties cannot agree, the assumption is that the Tax Court will provide the answer.]]></description>
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            <title>SARS collections focus on R532-billion undisputed debt!</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The July 2026 SARS Debt Collection Data is out, and reveals an increased collection pool of R532-billion, just on “undisputed debt”. This pool is comprised of both the multi-million-rand debts, as well as the negligent taxpayer simply owing Administrative Penalties, well R27-billion of Administrative Penalties to be precise, to SARS for late return submissions. More significantly, the undisputed debt book has increased by approximately R124-billion, or 30.4%, since March 2025, when it stood at R407.9-billion.]]></description>
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            <title>SARS must show its hand: SARS cannot hide the record behind its own decision</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[A recent High Court judgment in Devland Cash and Carry (Pty) Ltd v The Commissioner for the South African Revenue Service (5837/2020) [2026] ZAGPJHC 967 reinforces the principle that if SARS makes a decision affecting a taxpayer, the taxpayer must be able to understand and test the basis on which that decision was made. The taxpayer sought to review the decision to reject suspension of payment of a disputed tax debt of R1.9 billion and, in doing so, required SARS to produce the complete record underlying its decision in terms of Rule 53 of the Uniform Rules of Court, which governs High Court proceedings and regulates the procedure in cases of review applications. ]]></description>
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            <title>This Wills Month, leave your family answers, not arguments</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Every time an estate lands on my desk, it represents a life that’s ended. While we never lose sight of that fact, our focus is on the people left behind. It may sound morbid. But it’s quite the opposite. Working with bereaved families every day has taught me how much easier we can make life for our loved ones by putting the right things in place while we’re still alive.]]></description>
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