MISUSE OF ASSESSED LOSSES
An assessed loss for income tax purposes is a potentially valuable asset: it represents past losses made by a taxpayer which is able of being carried forward to subsequent tax years against which future taxable profits are able of being set off. The set-off of historic losses – in the form of an assessed loss […]
SALARY SACRIFICE SCHEMES – LATEST JUDGMENT BY THE SUPREME COURT OF APPEAL
Salary sacrifice schemes are popular in practice. Typically, they involve employers paying a decreased salary to their employees, with an added fringe benefit to make up for the lost ‘cost to company’ sacrificed by the employee to obtain the benefit. For example, an employee may prefer to enter into a salary sacrifice with his/her employer […]
TAX FREE INVESTMENT SAVINGS ACCOUNTS
Our clients will have noted the various advertisements on radio and in the media generally of financial service providers inviting the public to invest in their respective so-called ‘tax free savings’ investment products. These accounts are made possible by section 12T of the Income Tax Act, 58 of 1962, introduced in 2015 as an initiative […]