Alan Lewis
Tax Law Services
CLIENTS / CASES
Alan has worked with many clients over the years, below is a summary of more recent one's all of which had a successful outcome. There are many many more, details of which can be supplied on request.
ERP Consultancy 2017 : successfully opposed an assessment for PAYE, SDL and UIF on the basis that taxpayer not liable where it employed independent contractors.
Transport industry supplier 2017: successfully claimed outstanding input tax and obtained withdrawal of judgement against taxpayer.
Transport industry supplier 2017: successfully objected to VAT assessments and claiming input tax deductions to prevent SARS instituting legal action against client
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Supplier - heavy machinery 2016: successfully objected to various VAT assessments, on the basis that input taxes should have been allowed; resulting refunds of approximately R 10 million paid to client.
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Supplier - building materials 2015: successfully defended a claim for payment for income tax, for various tax periods, on the basis that SARS had failed to prove that it had delivered the offending assessments to client
Individual taxpayer 2015 & 2016 : succeeded with 2 applications to compel, on the basis that SARS had failed to deal with an objection within prescribed time period, resulting in large refund to client.
Mining services company 2017: successfully objected to an assessment to claim a rebate of a large amount of foreign withholding tax; succeeding to obtain payment from SARS of the resulting income tax refund by launching application in High Court.
Educational trust 2017 : succeeded with application to order SARS to provide reasons for disallowing clients objection to assessments for VAT which were then found to be valid.
Individual taxpayer 2016/7 : appeal of disallowed objection for PAYE assessment where SARS disallowed deductible expenses; application to compel resulting in SARS conceding appeal and substantial refund
Film and production company 2017 : successfully appealed against SARS decision to disallow an objection against a VAT assessment, which incorrectly required that the client could not be liable for output tax, prior to date of its registration as a vendor.
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