We offer a wide range of legal services, ensuring that our team-based approach delivers innovative, practical and cost-effective solutions to our clients. With offices in Durban, Johannesburg, Cape Town, Pietermaritzburg and Richards Bay, we offer accessible and complete legal services to a diverse client base. Local and international affiliations further extend our representation throughout Southern Africa, Europe and North America.
Our leadership team comprised of Sifiso Msomi, Chairperson of the Board, and Joint Managing Partners, Samantha Davidson and Anton Lockem, underscores the firm’s depth of expertise and clear vision for the future while reinforcing a continued commitment to excellence, transformation and diversity within the legal profession.
We have increasingly and alarmingly been encountering instances where South African Revenue Service (“SARS”) officials and/or internal administrative appeal committees (“Appeal Committees”) are refusing to accept or hear appeals where taxpayers have elected not to be dealt with in terms of section 91 of the Customs and Excise Act 91 of 1964 as amended (“the Act”).
If you are a South African taxpayer with offshore interests, the landscape in which you operate is undergoing a fundamental shift. Increased international cooperation and enhanced domestic oversight means that the days of "offshore privacy" are largely behind us, as the South African Revenue Service (“SARS”) has strengthened its ability to detect undeclared foreign bank accounts, investments (including digital assets like cryptocurrency), and offshore asset-holding structures like companies and trusts. If you need to regularise your affairs, we propose that you consider SARS’ Voluntary Disclosure Program (“VDP”).
On 6 March 2026, ITAC published notice 7199 inviting the public to comment on proposed amendments to the International Trade Administration Act 71 of 2002 (“ITA Act”). ITAC has allowed the public 4 weeks from the date of publication of the Notice to submit comments regarding the proposed amendments.
A recent decision of the Tax Court in ABC v C:SARS highlights an important principle in South African tax administration: Where SARS communicates ambiguously with taxpayers, the consequences of that ambiguity may not necessarily fall upon the taxpayer.
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