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The judgments delivered in the Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) on this page are arranged per year and then per date of delivery. SCA judgments delivered in another year, can be accessed through the navigation pane above.
2021 | |||
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| Date of Delivery | Parties Involved | Applicable Legislation | Keywords |
26 March 2021 New! | Massmart Holdings Limited v CSARS (84/2020) | Income Tax Act, 1962 | Capital Gains Tax (CGT); taxpayer implementing a share incentive scheme for its key management personnel; scheme conducted through a trust; whether taxpayer suffering capital losses for CGT purposes by virtue of its dealings with, and in relation to, the trust |
2020 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of Delivery | Parties Involved | Applicable Legislation | Keywords |
| 18 December 2020 | Consol Glass (Pty) Limited v CSARS (1010/2019) | Value-Added Tax Act, 1991 | Tax liability under the Value-Added Tax Act 89 of 1991; services rendered in respect of a debt refinancing transaction; disallowance of input tax deduction claimed in respect of fees paid for services provided by local vendors; imposition of tax on imported services in terms of section 7(1)(c); interpretation of the definitions of “input tax” and “imported services”; meaning of “the purpose of consumption, use of supply in the course of making taxable supplies”; whether Consol was entitled to deduct as input tax the VAT paid on the services supplied to it by local service providers depended upon whether these services were acquired by Consol for the purpose of consumption, use or supply in the course of making taxable supplies; whether Consol was obliged to pay VAT on the services supplied to it by the service providers who carried on their business outside of South Africa, a similar enquiry is required |
| 20 November 2020 | City Power (SOC) Limited v CSARS (1147/2019) | Income Tax Act, 1962 | Income Tax Act 58 of 1962; appellant not a municipality or local sphere of government; appellant’s accruals and receipts not exempt from normal tax under section 10(1)(a) and (b) |
| 20 May 2020 | Fowler (Respondent) v Commissioner for Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (Case: [2020] UKSC 22, On appeal from: [2018] EWCA Civ 2544) See Press Summary | Income Tax Act, 1962 | Published for information purposes as it relates to the SA-UK tax treaty |
| 3 April 2020 | Diageo South Africa (Pty) Ltd v CSARS (Case No: 330/2019) | Value-Added Tax Act, 1991 | Value-Added Tax Act 89 of 1991; interpretation of section 8(15); deeming provision; single supply of advertising and promotional goods and services to non-resident entities; applicability of deeming provision applied to goods portion of the supply; VAT at standard rate correctly levied in terms of section 7(1)(a) of the Act |
| 25 March 2020 | CSARS v United Manganese of Kalahari (Pty) Ltd (Case No: 264/2019) | Mineral and Petroleum Resources Royalty Act, 2008 | Mineral and Petroleum Resources Royalty Act 28 of 2008; royalty calculation based on gross sales determined in terms of section 6(2)(b), read with section 6(3)(b) of the Royalty Act; gross sales to be determined without regard to any expenditure incurred in respect of transport, insurance and handling of mineral; meaning of “without regard to any expenditure” |
| 25 March 2020 | Telkom SA SOC Limited v CSARS (Case No: 239/19) | Income Tax Act, 1962 | Income Tax Act 58 of 1962 (the Act); section 24I; losses or gains caused by foreign exchange fluctuations; proviso to section 24I(10); not a self-standing provision for deduction of a commercial loss unconnected to foreign exchange currency differences; Natal Joint Municipal Pension Fund v Endumeni Municipality 2012 (4) SA 593 (SCA); unitary but not uniform exercise in purposive interpretation of contracts and statutes; application of contra fiscum rule and presumption that statute law not unjust, inequitable or unreasonable |
