Demystifying the arm's length principle
In the South African Budget 2020 speech, the Minister of Finance announced that government would be restructuring the corporate income tax system by broadening the tax base in order to potentially reduce the rate in future.
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Transfer pricing and the inherent arm’s length principle has been around for some time now and many African countries have implemented transfer pricing regulations. In Africa, only about five countries had transfer pricing legislation in place before 2000, now in 2019, only about five countries do not have any arm’s length or anti-avoidance provisions in place dealing with transfer pricing. Out of these countries approximately 40 countries in Africa have some sort of formal transfer pricing documentation requirements, be it in the form of formal submission or retention requirements.
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I was reading the “How to complete and submit your country by country information” external guide published by SARS and came across the below.
“For the purposes of calculating the value of a taxpayer’s annual aggregate (potentially affected transactions): Continue reading “Dividends are considered a potentially affected transaction by SARS”