Dividends withholding tax is now 20%, but when is it charged or not charged? In principle, DWT is withheld by the company paying the dividend, then paid over to SARS by the end of the month following that in which the dividend was declared or paid. So if the dividend was R100 000, the shareholder gets R80 000 and SARS gets R20 000. If the shareholder is not a South Afrcian resident (and provided his/her share certificate was stamped “Non-resident”), then we have to go to the Double Taxation Agreement between the shareholder’s country of residence and South Africa. Depending…
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