Gerhard Badenhorst > Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr > Johannesburg, South Africa > Lawyer Profile
Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr Offices
1 PROTEA PLACE
SANDTON
JOHANNESBURG 2196
South Africa
Gerhard Badenhorst
Work Department
Tax and Exchange Control
Position
Gerhard Badenhorst is a Director in our Tax & Exchange Control practice. He is a chartered accountant and specialises in value-added tax (VAT) matters in various industries, including the financial services, mining and property industries. Gerhard acts for various private, public and multinational corporations and non-profit organisations. He is a guest lecturer on VAT at the University of Pretoria and the University of the Witwatersrand and serves as a member of the South African Institute of Chartered Accountants VAT sub-committee, and was an ad hoc member of the VAT sub-committee of the Davis Tax Committee.
Career
After completing articles with audit firm BDO Spencer Stewart, Gerhard completed his National Service with the South African Revenue Service. He then joined the tax department of auditing firm Theron du Toit in April 1990 as a tax advisor, and began specialising in Value Added Tax (VAT) when the draft VAT legislation was first released in June 1990. Theron du Toit merged with auditing firm Coopers & Lybrand, where he was admitted as a tax partner responsible for the VAT service line in 1993. Coopers & Lybrand merged with Pricewaterhouse to form PricewaterhouseCoopers, where he headed up the national indirect tax practice (VAT & Customs) until December 2003. Gerhard joined the tax department of the law firm Sonnenberg Hoffman Galombik (SHG) in January 2004 as a tax executive specialising in VAT. SHG merged with Edward Nathan to form Edward Nathan Sonnenbergs, where he headed up the indirect tax team until April 2017. Gerhard joined Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr as a Director in May 2017.
Memberships
- SAICA (The South African Institute of Chartered Accountants)
- SAIT (South African Institute of Tax Practitioners)
- Registered Tax Practitioner
Education
- BCom Accounting, Rand Afrikaans University
- BCom Hons Accounting, Rand Afrikaans University
- Diploma in Tax Law, Rand Afrikaans University
- Masters in Business Management, Rand Afrikaans University
- CA (SA), The South African Institute of Chartered Accountants
Lawyer Rankings
South Africa > Tax
(Leading partners)Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr‘s ‘well established and experienced‘ tax and exchange control practice ‘covers the whole spectrum of taxation‘, and has been kept busy representing clients in the energy, financial services and telecoms sectors, to name a few areas. Practice head Emil Brincker‘s ‘years of experience in dealing with tax disputes makes him the tax lawyer that you need on your side in dealing with tax disputes and tax litigation‘. Director Gerhard Badenhorst draws on his extensive experience as a chartered accountant to advise on complex VAT matters, and Howmera Parak specialises in international tax and exchange control issues. Jerome Brink fields expertise in tax controversy and dispute resolution, corporate tax, transfer pricing and tax residency cases, and Stephan Spamer‘s workload includes advising on tax structuring and the tax aspects of mergers and acquisitions.