Late payment penalties are the most common source of VAT disputes. However, where these late payment penalties follow as a result of an assessment from SARS, the dispute is often much bigger as the South African VAT system is a self-assessment type system and therefore where SARS issues an assessment, there is often a much bigger problem.
Our team includes lawyers with wide litigation and controversy experience. We are therefore optimally equipped to deal with a VAT dispute, whether it is at audit finding stage, objection stage, ADR hearing stage or about to go to court or tax board.