Louis Botha is a Senior Associate in our Tax & Exchange Control practice. His experience includes the areas of corporate tax, individual tax, employees’ tax (PAYE), environmental taxes, such as carbon tax and the application of exchange control laws in various contexts, including the regularisation of tax and exchange control contraventions. He also has experience in tax controversy and dispute resolution.
Louis Botha joined Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr as a Candidate Attorney in 2015. He was appointed as an Associate in 2017 and promoted to Senior Associate in 2019.
Credentials
Credentials
Education
Registered with the Legal Practice Council
BComm Law (with distinction), University of Pretoria
LLB (with distinction), University of Pretoria
LLM Tax Law, University of Pretoria
About Louis
Louis Botha joined Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr as a Candidate Attorney in 2015. He was appointed as an Associate in 2017 and promoted to Senior Associate in 2019.
Credentials
Education
Registered with the Legal Practice Council
BComm Law (with distinction), University of Pretoria
LLB (with distinction), University of Pretoria
LLM Tax Law, University of Pretoria
Experience
Exchange control
Advising on and obtaining exchange control approval for different types transactions, including funding transactions, outward foreign direct investments, transfer of funds abroad under the dispensations available under exchange control law
Exchange control rules
Advising companies in different sectors on the exchange control rules applicable to them, including companies in the financial sector and insurance industry
Offshore assets
Advising and assisting individuals with the regularisation of their offshore assets with the South African Reserve Bank, including regularisation of such assets under the Special Voluntary Disclosure Programme
Exchange control approval
Advising and assisting individuals to obtain exchange control approval, including transactions and matters involving deceased estates, immigrants and emigrants
