Capital Gains Tax considerations for retiring small business owners

Retirement for small business owners is not simply a case of handing in your resignation letter and having a big party at which the company presents you with a gold watch. It often involves the not inconsiderable task of selling your business particularly if there is no ‘heir apparent’ to take over the reins. And […]

TIME FOR ESTATE DUTY TO GO?

The days of estate duty may be numbered according to Nicolene Schoeman of Schoeman Attorneys and an article by Barry Ger, Cape Town-based tax consultant, in the May issue of De Rebus, the SA attorneys’ journal published by the Law Society of South Africa (LSSA). His opinion is echoed by several other media reports. In […]

IS FIXED PROPERTY IN A TRUST STILL VIABLE?

Gerrie Vosser examines the tax and costs related to different scenarios in order to determine whether it is still a feasible option to hold fixed property in a trust. For many years the high transfer duty rate applying to trusts made it less attractive to purchase fixed properties in trust, a situation that changed, quite unexpectedly, for the better when […]

ESCAPING THE HIGHER CAPITALS GAINS TAX RATE

By Barry Ger, senior manager for corporate tax at KPMG 01 April 2012  A window of opportunity opens for some companies.  If your company is thinking of selling any capital assets and its year end is not February  or March there may be a window of opportunity to do it at the lower effective tax rate for […]

BUYING YOUR PROPERTY IN A TRUST: IS IT REALLY WORTH IT?

A trust is a legal entity with its own distinct identity. It has the contractual capacity to acquire, hold and dispose of property and other such assets for the benefit of its nominated beneficiaries. All trusts are governed and administered in terms of the Trust Property Control Act, and formed and governed in terms of a […]