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Record W4385309200 · doi:10.17159/obiter.v44i2.16558

THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CERTAIN CAPITAL ALLOWANCES IN THE INCOME TAX ACT AND THE SPECIAL ECONOMIC ZONES POLICY OBJECTIVES

2023· article· en· W4385309200 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueObiter · 2023
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicLegal Issues in South Africa
Canadian institutionsInnovation, Science and Economic Development Canada
Fundersnot available
KeywordsLegislationBusinessCapital (architecture)Public economicsProperty taxAllowance (engineering)Context (archaeology)Income taxIncentiveTax policyEconomic policyEconomicsTax reformMarket economyLawOperations managementPolitical science

Abstract

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Through various incentives, special economic zones (SEZs) aim to promote industrial capacity development, create jobs and stimulate the South African economy. However, in practice, misalignment of tax legislation requirements with current practices may undermine the success of the SEZ programme. If property developers are unable to claim capital allowances for expenditure incurred on property developments within an SEZ, this acts as a disincentive to investment, which conflicts with the overarching rationale for the SEZ initiative. This study seeks to determine the extent to which current practices prevent property developers from claiming capital allowances for developments in SEZs, and to propose appropriate remedies. The study presents a doctrinal analysis of the requirements of the SEZ Act and relevant provisions of the Income Tax Act in the context of current practices in SEZ development. The analysis demonstrates that, where the ownership of land designated for SEZ development is retained by government, property developer lessees may be unable to claim capital allowances in respect of expenditure incurred on property developments. This study therefore motivates for the removal of the ownership requirement from building allowance provisions of the Income Tax Act. This would align tax legislation with current practice and the policy objectives of the SEZ programme, as well as address the current inconsistency in the requirements of building allowances.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Qualitative · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.757
Threshold uncertainty score0.997

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.002
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.018
GPT teacher head0.322
Teacher spread0.304 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it