Tag: tax avoidance

Globally, tax is making headlines with an increasing focus on tax avoidance or aggressive tax planning, to increase the revenue collection by governments. While specific anti-avoidance rules are already available, general anti-avoidance rules (GAARs) were adopted in South Africa and elsewhere, coupled with a greater focus on addressing base erosion and profit shifting.

Ernest Mazansky, Tax Director, Werksmans Attorneys and Dr Ivor Blumenthal, discuss the controversy of the recent leak of hacked client records called the Paradise...

Ernest Mazansky | Tax Director | Werksmans Attorneys | emazansky@werksmans.com | www.werksmans.com | This seems to be much of a replay of the Panama Papers.  But I...

Tax is the price we pay for civilisation and transfer pricing is the price we pay for globalisation. Over the years, transfer pricing has...

Finance Minister, Pravin Gordhan and the National Treasury, have their work cut out for them in the 2017/18 financial year. The economic stewards of...