Tax

In a complex environment, our specialist lawyers and practitioners provide clear and practical business solutions. Tax and exchange control is a highly regulated area, carefully monitored and strictly enforced by the authorities. In this environment, planning, implementing and reporting on significant business transactions is best undertaken with a clear understanding of the tax consequences and under the protection of legal professional privilege.

Our Tax and Exchange Control practice provides advice on a wide variety of tax and exchange control matters, both in the local and international context. We provide tax planning as well as tax structuring and transaction related services. We are also actively involved in tax dispute resolution and we assist clients in resolving their disputes with the South African Revenue Service (SARS). A number of our client disputes have recently been heard and settled favourably in the Tax Court and the Supreme Court of Appeal.

We also keep our clients informed of anticipated changes in tax laws and practice to help them manage and take advantage of developments on the tax front. We work on tax matters on an individual basis, or as part of a team of lawyers from across our firm’s practice areas in corporate transactions. We are therefore able to provide a commercially integrated service in order to ensure efficiency from inception to implementation.