Securities transfer taxes and duties

General1681. Recovery of Securities Transfer TaxDecember 2008 – Issue 112 The Securities Transfer Tax Act, 2007 ("the STT Act"), and the Securities Transfer Tax Administration Act, 2007 ("the STT Administration Act") were passed into ...

General1667. Commencement of Securities Transfer TaxOctober 2008 – Issue 110 With effect from 1 July 2008, a new Securities Transfer Tax ("STT") replaced the previous Stamp Duty and Uncertificated Securities Tax ("UST") which were pay...

Duties and Levies1715. Abolition of stamp dutyMarch 2009 – Issue 115 The ambit of the Stamp Duties Act which was introduced in 1968 has been steadily reduced over the last few years. Stamp duty only remains payable on leases of immova...

Sars scraps stamp duty var addthis_pub="southafricainfo"; var addthis_options = 'favorites, facebook, digg, delicious, google, stumbleupon, live, yahoobkm, twitter, more'; 2 April 2009 The South African Revenue Service (Sars) has abolished...