Share value shifting: a comparison between the anti-avoidance provisions in South African and Australian tax legislation
| dc.contributor.author | Jansen van Rensburg, Enelia | en_ZA |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2018-05-11T11:44:32Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2018-05-11T11:44:32Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2007-02 | |
| dc.description | CITATION: Jansen van Rensburg, E. 2007. Share value shifting : a comparison between the anti-avoidance provisions in South African and Australian tax legislation . Stellenbosch Law Review = Stellenbosch Regstydskrif 18(2):288-312. | en_ZA |
| dc.description | The original publication is available at https://journals.co.za/content/journal/ju_slr | |
| dc.description.abstract | INTRODUCTION: For as long as countries have imposed capital gains tax (CGT), taxpayers have been looking for ways of transferring economic value without becoming liable to pay it. Since CGT is usually triggered by the realisation of an asset, taxpayers soon realised that if they could shift economic value from their assets without selling or otherwise realising the assets, they could avoid, or at least defer, CGT. This led to the notion of share value shifting, which achieves this objective in relation to shares. Taxation authorities in turn recognised the danger which this form of tax avoidance holds for the integrity of a CGT regime and the need for measures to counter it. At the outset the article provides some background on what share value shifting is and how anti-avoidance measures generally aim to prevent this form of tax avoidance. It also explains the scope of the anti-avoidance measures in the South African and Australian tax legislation and the manner in which the measures are incorporated in the general South African and Australian CGT regimes. The article then focuses on the special rules in the South African tax legislation that govern the calculation of CGT in respect of share value shifting and considers some of the difficulties that arise from the fact that these measures fail to interact properly with the general CGT provisions. In the second part of the article, it considers which kinds of share value shifting are targeted by the value shifting anti-avoidance measures in the South African tax legislation and criticises the limited scope of these measures. | en_ZA |
| dc.description.abstract | Belastingvermyding in die vorm van waardeverskuiwingsreëlings met betrekking tot aandele skep 'n bedreiging vir die integriteit van die Suid-Afrikaanse kapitaalwinsbelastingbedeling. As teenvoeter hiervoor bevat die Agtste Bylae tot die Inkomstebelastingwet, 58 van 1961 teenvermydingsbepalings wat daarop gemik is om hierdie vorm van belastingvermyding aan te spreek. Die artikel vergelyk hierdie bepalings met soortgelyke bepalings in die Australiese belastingwetgewing en identifiseer twee tekortkominge in die Suid-Afrikaanse bepalings: eerstens is die bepalings nie na wense met die res van die Agtste Bylae geïntegreer nie en tweedens is die omvang van die bepalings te beperk. | af_ZA |
| dc.description.version | Publishers version | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Jansen van Rensburg, E. 2007. Share value shifting : a comparison between the anti-avoidance provisions in South African and Australian tax legislation . Stellenbosch Law Review = Stellenbosch Regstydskrif 18(2):288-312. | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 1016-4359 (print) | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 1996-2193 (online) | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/103981 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_ZA | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher | Juta Law Publishing | |
| dc.rights.holder | Juta Law Publishing | |
| dc.subject | Stock transfer | en_ZA |
| dc.subject | Tax evasion -- Law and legislation -- South Africa | en_ZA |
| dc.subject | Tax evasion -- Law and legislation -- Australia | en_ZA |
| dc.subject | Capital gains tax -- South Africa | en_ZA |
| dc.subject | Share value shifting | en_ZA |
| dc.title | Share value shifting: a comparison between the anti-avoidance provisions in South African and Australian tax legislation | en_ZA |
| dc.type | Article | en_ZA |