Tag: VAT
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Claiming VAT input on “pre-enterprise” expenditure
In terms of section 17 of the Value-Added Tax Act, 89 of 1991, a registered VAT vendor is entitled to claim back any amounts of VAT paid on goods and services acquired or imported that will be used in the furtherance of that particular VAT enterprise. The ability to claim input VAT in this manner…
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SARS to intensify action against tax offenders
Despite the fact that SARS has upheld their philosophy of education, service, and thereafter enforcement, they have noticed an increase in taxpayers not submitting their tax returns by the stipulated deadlines, and not settling their outstanding debt with SARS. This is not limited to the current tax year but includes substantial non-compliance across previous tax…
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Goods and services acquired by VAT vendors on credit
It is an established principle that registered VAT vendors may claim a deduction for input tax on goods or services acquired for use in the course of making taxable supplies as part of carrying on an enterprise.[1] For example, a VAT vendor purchases trading stock from another vendor for the purpose of sale to its…
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Non-executive directors’ remuneration: VAT and PAYE
Two significant rulings by SARS, both relating to non-executive directors’ remuneration, were published by SARS during February 2017. The rulings, Binding General Rulings 40 and 41, concerned the VAT and PAYE treatment respectively to be afforded to remuneration paid to non-executive directors. The significance of rulings generally is that it creates a binding effect upon…
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VAT and Common Law Theft
A recent decision has created some interest in whether the taxpayers failing to pay over the correct amounts of VAT can be charged – in addition to other statutory crimes prescribed by the VAT Act, 89 of 1991 – with the common law crime of theft. In Director of Public Prosecutions, Western Cape v Parker[1]…
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Apportionment of VAT input claims
Generally speaking, the VAT portion of expenditure incurred by a VAT vendor in carrying on its enterprise may be claimed back from SARS when the VAT vendor submits is VAT returns on a periodical basis. Typically, these input tax claims are set off against the output tax liability that the VAT vendor may have. However,…
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Bracket creep, VAT and the 2017 Budget
Year on year the personal income tax tables are adjusted and based on which individuals are taxed based on an increasing sliding scale based on their income earned and therefore into which tax bracket they would fall. The annual adjustments are partly to provide for tax relief or an additional burden on certain salary earners,…
