2-Part Webinar Series: Essentials of VAT

The Essentials of VAT sessions will ensure that you have a thorough understanding of the key VAT principles, including areas where the most common mistake happens. It will help you clarify your understanding of the VAT treatment of typical day-to-day transactions.

Part 1: Output Tax

  • Basic introduction to VAT:
  • The basic VAT calculation
  • Registration as a VAT vendor
  • Invoice vs payment basis of accounting for VAT
  • Overview of types of supplies
    • Overview of when a vendor is liable for VAT (including the definitions of ‘enterprise’, ‘supply’, ‘goods’ & ‘services’)
    • Consideration and value of a supply (including the VAT treatment of donations and deposits)
    • Value & time of supply
    • Overview of zero- rated and exempt supplies
    • Deeming provisions, including:
      • Fringe benefits
      • Indemnity payments
  • Debit and credit notes
  • Other output tax adjustments

We work through many practical, day-to-day transactions that a debtors clerk would encounter, and will apply VAT principles covered to each transaction.

Part 2: Input Tax

  • A basic understanding of input tax
  • The documentary requirements (including electronic invoices)
  • Recipient created invoices
  • Input tax specifically denied (i.e. entertainment, motor car and subscriptions).
  • Reimbursements and credit cards
  • Notional input tax on second-hand goods
  • When and how to apportionment of input tax deductions
  • VAT treatment of agent/principal transactions
  • VAT treatment of company-cross charges
  • Other input tax adjustments


We work through many practical, day-to-day, transactions that a creditors clerk would encounter, and will apply VAT principles covered to each transaction.

Cost: R1 380 (inclusive of VAT) / R1 200 (exclusive of VAT) per person

This webinar series will contribute to 4 hours CPD/CPE