
Tax Break
Hosted by Pieter van der Zwan · Professor Pieter van der Zwan | South African Tax Specialist
5.0from 17 ratings
- 93
- Episodes
- 4
- Transcribed
- 17
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2024
- First episode
About Tax Break
Tax Break is a podcast for any professional who works with South African tax regularly. This includes tax practitioners, tax professionals, financial managers (FMs), financial directors (FDs), CFOs, accountants, auditors, lawyers and corporate finance advisors. The host is Professor Pieter van der Zwan, a South African chartered accountant, who lectures the masters programme in tax at a South African university. He has 20 years experience in advising companies, high net worth individuals, accountants, lawyers and corporate finance professionals on South African tax and IFRS. In each episode he discusses a topic or a recent development in South African tax including new cases, changes to the legislation, SARS guidance and topics that often surface in his consulting practice. And each episode is only 10-15 minutes long, just enough for you to listen to during your coffee break!
- Publisher
- Professor Pieter van der Zwan | South African Tax Specialist
- Category
- business
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 29 Oct 2024
- Latest episode
- 8 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
4 of 93 episodes have a transcript.

8 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Dividend stripping and the GAAR: CGT and USPs

17 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Interest deduction limitations: section 23M of the Income Tax Act

10 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Fixing bona fide errors on tax returns: USP risks
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Dividend stripping and the GAAR: CGT and USPs
Published 8 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] The judgment was published in July 2026, about two, three months ago. And it was seven appeals combined into one. Now, the seven taxpayers were the seven shareholders of a company, which was the target of an acquisition. The company is called RAS in the judgment. And RAS was a property company funded by shareholder loans rather than share capital, which often happens. So it's quite typical. But the importance of this is that the shares themselves, therefore, had very little base cost. So if the shares were sold, the value, the full proceeds from the sale would basically be the capital gain. Now, all of these seven shareholders placed, they were natural persons trusts, and they placed their shares into holding companies that basically held the shares in RAS. […]
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