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.
This July, millions of South Africans opened an SMS or email from the South African Revenue Service (“SARS”) and found that their tax return had, in effect, already been done for them. For some, this feels like a small miracle as there were no forms, no queues, no stress. For others, it raised an uneasy question: can I really trust a tax assessment I didn't prepare myself?
Companies involved in customs and excise activities operate within a highly regulated environment. Registration and licensing with the South African Revenue Service (“SARS”) is not merely a once-off administrative requirement; it gives rise to an ongoing obligation to ensure that SARS is kept informed of any material changes to the information originally provided during the registration or licensing process.
The Constitutional Court's recent judgment in Leuven Metals (Pty) Ltd v CSARS provides important guidance on the VAT treatment of refined gold supplied to prescribed purchasers. More broadly, the decision serves as another reminder that South African tax law remains firmly rooted in black-letter principles of statutory interpretation, with the text of the legislation remaining the primary determinant of tax outcomes.
 (a) OF THE CUSTOMS ACT NO.91 OF 1964)
Subject to certain exceptions, section 44 (11) (a) of the Customs and Excise Act No.91 of 1964 (“the Customs Act”) provides that there shall be no liability for any underpayment of customs duties after a period of two years from the date of acceptance of a bill of entry where such underpayment was discovered as a result of, during the course of, or following upon, an inspection and that underpayment occurred on a date earlier than two years prior to the date on which such inspection commenced.
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