- The Supreme Court of Appeal delivered a judgment on VAT treatment of underwriting fees involving Woolworths Holdings Limited.
- Key issues included whether Woolworths could deduct VAT on local underwriting fees and if it needed to pay VAT on fees to non-resident providers.
- Woolworths is an investment holding company providing management and financial services to subsidiaries.
- In 2014, Woolworths acquired David Jones Limited shares, funded partly by a rights offer to shareholders.
- Woolworths deducted input tax on local underwriting services and declared VAT on imported services.
- SARS argued the underwriting services were not for enterprise purposes, citing lack of continuous share issuance activity.
- Woolworths claimed it conducted an enterprise and acquired underwriting services to further its business.
Source: cms-lawnow.com
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