{"id":55032,"date":"2014-03-28T17:03:28","date_gmt":"2014-03-28T15:03:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=55032"},"modified":"2014-03-28T17:03:28","modified_gmt":"2014-03-28T15:03:28","slug":"new-digital-tax-implementation-date","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/internet\/55032\/new-digital-tax-implementation-date\/","title":{"rendered":"New digital tax implementation date"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a period of public comment, the National Treasury has published its new regulations that aim to introduce South Africa\u2019s 14% VAT on all digital goods and services, even those bought from foreign companies.<\/p>\n<p>Treasury first published the draft regulations on its website towards the end of January 2014, giving interested parties until 20 February to comment on them.<\/p>\n<p>The draft regulations stipulated a 1 April 2014 implementation date of the sales tax on digital goods and services.<\/p>\n<p>Minister of Finance Pravin Gordhan published the actual regulations on Friday, 28 March 2014, in Government Gazette No. 37849.<\/p>\n<p>In this document, the commencement date of the regulations is set for 1 June 2014.<\/p>\n<p>This article first appeared on <a title=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/99590-new-digital-tax-for-south-africa-postponed.html\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/99590-new-digital-tax-for-south-africa-postponed.html\">MyBroadband<\/a><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on digital tax<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"Why digital tax is good for South Africa\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/internet\/52940\/why-digital-tax-is-good-for-south-africa\/\"><strong>Why digital tax is good for South Africa<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"SA digital tax coming in April\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/52545\/sa-digital-tax-coming-in-april\/\"><strong>SA digital tax coming in April<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Treasury has published its \u201cElectronic Services Regulations\u201d in the Government Gazette which indicate a later implementation date.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":32548,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9882],"tags":[7386,26,3796],"class_list":["post-55032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-digital-tax","tag-headline","tag-national-treasury"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55032"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55035,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55032\/revisions\/55035"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}