RE: SA withholding tax18 Aug 2022 09:59
Presuming you aren't a company owning more than 10% of TGA, you may be able to reduce the rate to 10% if you hold the shares in your own name (rare) not in a nominee account (common). AFAIK, no one has managed to get their broker to allow them to claim the tax back for them, if someone has please can they share the details with the board.
It may be possible to use a spread bet long to avoid all withholding tax, but I can't be certain it would work and it could be very risky.
From the Divi declaration:
Non-South African tax resident shareholders will be paid the dividend subject to 20%
withholding tax for shareholders. Certain non-South African tax resident shareholders
may however be entitled to a reduced rate of dividends tax due to the provisions of an
applicable tax treaty. In the case of UK-resident shareholders, for example, the DTA
allows for
(i) a reduced rate of 5% if the shareholder is a company that holds at least
10% of the capital of Thungela, and
(ii) .a reduced rate of 10% in all other cases