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Petr Erasmus

Director

Petr Erasmus is a Director in our Tax & Exchange Control practice.

+27 (0)11 562 1450
petr.erasmus@cdhlegal.comJohannesburg
Petr Erasmus

About Petr

About Petr

Petr started his career as a Customs and Excise Officer at SARS: Customs in 1996. He was deployed across a wide range of customs and excise positions and offices before being appointed as a Tax Lawyer / Legal Advisor in 2007 at SARS Head Office in Pretoria. During this time Petr was exposed to numerous matters relating to the entire scope of customs and excise.

Petr served his articles at the State Attorney in Pretoria in 2011, joined Shepstone & Wylie as an Associate in 2012 and was appointed as Partner in 2015. In 2016 he joined Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr as a Director.

Credentials

Credentials

Education

  • B Proc, University of South Africa
  • LLB, University of South Africa
  • Admitted as an Attorney: 2012
  • Customs courses up to law enforcement and checking course
  • Registered with the Legal Practice Council

Languages

Languages

  • English

About Petr

Petr started his career as a Customs and Excise Officer at SARS: Customs in 1996. He was deployed across a wide range of customs and excise positions and offices before being appointed as a Tax Lawyer / Legal Advisor in 2007 at SARS Head Office in Pretoria. During this time Petr was exposed to numerous matters relating to the entire scope of customs and excise.

Petr served his articles at the State Attorney in Pretoria in 2011, joined Shepstone & Wylie as an Associate in 2012 and was appointed as Partner in 2015. In 2016 he joined Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr as a Director.

Credentials

Education

  • B Proc, University of South Africa
  • LLB, University of South Africa
  • Admitted as an Attorney: 2012
  • Customs courses up to law enforcement and checking course
  • Registered with the Legal Practice Council

Languages

  • English

Experience

Customs and Excise

  • internal remedies and litigation
  • drafting and obtaining of tariff-, valuation- and origin determinations in various sectors from SARS
  • audits, notices of intentions to demand, letters of demand, detentions and seizures by SARS
  • legal advice and opinions
  • licensing / registration
  • high level audits verifying client compliance
  • refunds and other repayments

Customs and Excise legislation

Specialises in Customs & Excise legislation including tariff, valuation, origin and other fields in customs & excise law

During tenure at SARS

  • Legal Advisor / Litigation
  • Risk analysis
  • Cargo examination
  • Checking and stops
  • Passenger Hall
  • Excise
  • Licensing and Registration
  • Projects

News

Can SARS limit access to a taxpayer’s premises when carrying out an inspection?
Tax & Exchange Control

Can SARS limit access to a taxpayer’s premises when carrying out an inspection?

Judgment was handed down in the case of Alliance Fuel (Pty) Ltd and Inspacial Properties (Pty) Ltd v Commissioner for the South African Revenue Service in the High Court on 15October2024. 
Duty-free, profit-heavy? How prices at SA airports duty-free stack up

Duty-free, profit-heavy? How prices at SA airports duty-free stack up

Petr Erasmus, Director in the Tax & Exchange Control practice was featured in Financial Mail discussing Duty-free, profit-heavy? How prices at SA airports duty-free stack up
Rate changes and the fuel sector
Tax & Exchange Control

Rate changes and the fuel sector

With effect from 2023 and following a lengthy public consultation process, the Carbon Tax Act was amended to state the exact annual carbon tax rate increases from 2023 to 2030. One...
Customs and excise

Customs and excise
Customs And Excise
Tax & Exchange Control

Customs And Excise

All articles by Petr

Market recognition

  • The Legal 500 EMEA 2023 mentioned Petr for Tax.

Market recognition

  • The Legal 500 EMEA 2023 mentioned Petr for Tax.

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