Accountancy SA, May 1st, 2005
It was the 18th century philosopher Jeremy Bentham who said that lawyers are the only people in the world who are not punished for ignorance of the law. He would have been amused and irritated by modern English, especially lawyers' English.
The word "goods", for example, features in the VAT Act and in the previous General Sales Tax Act. The definition of goods, written by a lawyer, is corporeal movable things. Some years ago there was a dispute with a Receiver of Revenue in the Western Transvaal. A farmer was arguing, aggressively and contentiously, that his farm workers qualified as goods: t...
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