Transfer Duty

Value Added Tax ("VAT") is a tax that is levied in terms of the Value-Added Tax Act, 1991 (Act No. 89 of 1991) ("the VAT Act") on the value that is added by each vendor in the production chain of goods and is imposed each time a taxable supply of goods or services takes place. Each vendor is required to account to SARS for the VAT on the value which the vendor added to the good. While a VAT vendor is required to account to SARS for "output tax" on any taxable supplies made by the vendor, the VAT vendor is entitled to…