Monthly Tax Update: June 2020

Overview

The monthly tax update covers recent developments in South African tax with specific focus on what is relevant to tax practitioners, accountants and business owners. The June 2020 webinar will cover the following:

• Recent tax judgments including the UK case of Fowler v Commissioner for HMRC, which dealt with the interpretation of the SA-UK double tax treaty;
• SARS documents issued for comment such as the draft rule amendment under sections 29A and 120 of the Customs & Excise Act that deals with persons who are excluded from formal registration requirements and the relevant code to use by these persons;
• SARS notices such as Notice 618 and Notice 619 that were gazetted on Monday 1 June relating to expanding access to living annuity funds;
• Intepretation Note 87 (issue 3) related to Headquarter companies;
• FAQs issued by SARS for VAT vendors on COVID-19 Tax Relief;
• The latest tax legislative amendments;
• Other relevant matters.

Dates

• 23 June
• 21 July
• 20 August
• 22 September
• 20 October
• 19 November

Presenter

Professor Jackie Arendse 

PhD MTP(SA) Chartered Accountant (SA)

After completing her training at Deloitte and qualifying as a Chartered Accountant, Jackie was Group Financial Accountant for a top-100 listed company before moving to academia where she has authored, lectured and researched on all aspects of tax for more than 20 years.

She served as Project Director: Tax at the South African Institute of Chartered Accountants (SAICA) between 2004 and 2006, managing relationships with key stakeholders (especially SARS and National Treasury), enhancing SAICA members’ tax competence and representing SAICA in discussions with Government on tax policy and legislation.

Jackie was Head of the School of Accountancy at Wits University from 2009 until 2013 and has been Head of the Department of Accounting at Rhodes University since July 2014.

Jackie has presented tax seminars and webinars to tax practitioners and businesses around the country for many years and has authored numerous books, articles and publications in the field of taxation including Silke on South African Income Tax. She is the managing author of Silke on Tax Administration, published by LexisNexis and updated annually.

She is involved in an exciting new collaboration with The Tax Faculty to digitise tax training materials.

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