(1)
| (a) | A person (hereinafter referred to as "the transferor") must disregard any capital gain or capital loss determined in respect of the disposal of an asset to his or her spouse (hereinafter referred to as "the transferee"). |
| (b) | The transferee must be treated as having— |
| (i) | acquired the asset on the same date that such asset was acquired by the transferor; |
| (ii) | incurred an amount of expenditure equal to the expenditure contemplated in paragraph 20 of the Eighth Schedule that was incurred by that transferor in respect of that asset; |
| (iii) | incurred that expenditure on the same date and in the same currency that it was incurred by the transferor; |
| (iv) | used that asset in the same manner that it was used by the transferor; and |
| (v) | received an amount equal to any amount received by or accrued to that transferor in respect of that asset that would have constituted proceeds on disposal of that asset had that transferor disposed of it to a person other than the transferee. |
[Section 9HB(1)(b)(i) substituted by section 12(1) of the Taxation Laws Amendment Act, 2019 (Act No. 34 of 2019), GG 42951, dated 15 January 2020 - is deemed to have come into operation on 17 Janaury 2019 (section 12(2)]
| (2) | For the purposes of subsection (1)— |
| (a) | a person whose spouse dies must be treated as having disposed of an asset to that spouse immediately before the date of death of that spouse, if ownership of that asset is acquired by the deceased estate of that spouse in settlement of a claim arising under section 3 of the Matrimonial Property Act, 1984 (Act No. 88 of 1984); or |
| (b) | a person must be treated as having disposed of an asset to his or her spouse, if that asset is transferred to that spouse in consequence of a divorce order or, in the case of a union contemplated in paragraph (b) or (c) of the definition of "spouse" in section 1, an agreement of division of assets which has been made an order of court. |
| (3) | A person who disposes of an asset consisting of trading stock, livestock or produce contemplated in the First Schedule to his or her spouse, must be treated as having disposed of that asset for an amount received or accrued that is equal to the amount that was allowed as a deduction in respect of that asset for purposes of determining that person’s taxable income, before the inclusion of any taxable capital gain. |
| (4) | Where a person acquires an asset consisting of trading stock, livestock or produce contemplated in the First Schedule from his or her spouse, that person and his or her spouse must, for purposes of determining any taxable income derived by that person, be deemed to be one and the same person with respect to the date of acquisition of that asset by that person and the amount and date of incurral by that spouse of any cost or expenditure incurred in respect of that asset as contemplated in section 11(a) or 22(1) or (2). |
| (5) | This section must not apply in respect of the disposal of an asset by a person to his or her spouse who is not a resident, unless the asset disposed of is an asset contemplated in section 9J or in paragraph 2(1)(b) of the Eighth Schedule. |
[Section 9HB inserted by section 20 of the Taxation Laws Amendment Act, 2018 (Act No. 23 of 2018), GG 42172, dated 17 January 2019]
