You own a commercial property in your name. Suppose it cost you R2m and it is now worth R6m. They create a new company and spend their shares in exchange for ownership to themselves. It is the share exchange asset and no tax is levied. The following transaction is the most delicate: Company R will immediately transfer its shares in Company A to Company Q, in exchange for shares to company Q. Company R will transfer these shares as part of an asset for share transaction in accordance with the law`s s42. Company R will then hold 75% of the shares of Q. The remaining shares of Q Are owned by X. The sale of shares may also be submitted to the CGT, provided that the shares are held by the seller in a capital account. To the extent that the seller has sold the shares of a competition system, the product can be taxed at a higher rate than the CGT rate.

However, the 3-year holding rule in South African income tax law would consider as capital the proceeds of the sale of shares permanently held for three years, making it taxable at the effective capital gains rate of 22.4% (provided the seller is a business). When assets are sold (unlike shares), the purchase price is distributed on a reasonable and commercial basis between the assets acquired under the sale contract. This allowance is necessary to determine the tax impact on the disposal of each asset. The parties are not required to apply these provisions. Mergers can be done with the traditional sale of commercial mechanisms or shares, as the requirements for the application of the legal mechanism are administrative. For example, the legal mechanism requires that any creditor of the companies participating in the merger be informed of the merger and that a creditor be able to request, within a prescribed period of notification, that he ask a court to review the merger or merger because (only) the creditor is significantly affected by the merger or merger. This mechanism is advantageous when there are disputes in one of the merged parties, because if disputes cannot be transferred from one company to another without the consent of the other party, this is not the case when the merger and merger provisions (as described in Section 113 of the Mergers Act, as described in Section 116) are applied. Pending proceedings or proceedings initiated by or against an entity resulting from concentration or concentration continue to be pursued by or against an entity resulting from concentration or concentration. These changes have significantly limited the ability of sellers to exit a South African investment through a share repurchase mechanism. In addition, the new exceptional dividend regime can have a negative impact on corporate restructuring capacity by taxing the “rolling load relief rules” (which, on the whole, allow companies to transfer assets tax-neutral; see “Cristallization of Tax Charges” below).

When shares are issued in exchange for an asset, the value of the shares issued is, under South African law, equal to the market value of the acquired asset. In addition, the issuing company acquires the asset immediately after the acquisition at the market value of the shares.