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VUKILE PROPERTY FUND LIMITED - Dividend declaration: Tax treatment and salient dates

Release Date: 09/06/2022 08:01
Code(s): VKE VKE10 VKE11 VKE17 VKE14 VKE18 VKE16 VKE15     PDF:  
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Dividend declaration: Tax treatment and salient dates

VUKILE PROPERTY FUND LIMITED
(Incorporated in the Republic of South Africa)
(Registration number 2002/027194/06)
JSE share code: VKE NSX share code: VKN
ISIN: ZAE000180865
Bond company code: VKEI
(Granted REIT status with the JSE)
("Vukile" or "the company")


DIVIDEND DECLARATION: TAX TREATMENT AND SALIENT DATES


Notice is hereby given that a gross cash dividend of 65.28653 cents per share has been declared from income
reserves in respect of the year ended 31 March 2022. In accordance with Vukile's status as a REIT,
shareholders are advised that the distribution meets the requirements of a qualifying distribution for the
purposes of section 25BB of the Income Tax Act, 58 of 1962 (the "Income Tax Act"). The distribution on
the shares will be deemed to be a dividend for South African tax purposes in terms of section 25BB of the
Income Tax Act.

Accordingly, the dividend received by South African tax residents must be included in their gross income and
will not be exempt in terms of the ordinary dividend exemption in section 10(1)(k)(i) of the Income Tax Act,
as a result of paragraph (aa) of the proviso thereto which provides that dividends distributed by a REIT are
not exempt from income tax.

The dividend is however, exempt from dividend withholding tax in the hands of South African tax resident
shareholders, provided that the South African resident shareholders provide the following forms to their
Central Securities Depository Participant ("CSDP") or broker, as the case may be in respect of uncertificated
shares or the company, in respect of certificated shares:

(a)   a declaration that the dividends are exempt from dividend tax; and

(b)   a written undertaking to inform the CSDP or broker, as the case may be, should the circumstances
      affecting the reduced rate change or the beneficial owner cease to be the beneficial owner,

both in the form prescribed by the Commissioner for the South African Revenue Service. Shareholders are
advised to contact their CSDP or broker, as the case may be, to arrange for the abovementioned documents to
be submitted prior to the payment of the distribution if such documents have not already been submitted.

Dividends received by non-resident shareholders will be exempt from income tax in terms of section
10(1)(k)(i) of the Income Tax Act. The dividends withholding tax rate is 20%, accordingly, any dividend will
be subject to dividend withholding tax levied at a rate of 20%, unless the rate is reduced in terms of any
applicable agreement for the avoidance of double taxation ("DTA") between South Africa and the country of
residence of the shareholder.

Should dividend withholding tax be withheld at a rate of 20%, the net dividend amount due to non-resident
shareholders is 52.22922 cents per share. A reduced dividend withholding rate in terms of the applicable DTA
may only be relied on if the non-resident shareholder has provided the following forms to their CSDP or
broker, as the case may be in respect of uncertificated shares or the company, in respect of certificated shares:

(a)   a declaration that the dividend is subject to a reduced rate as a result of the application of a DTA; and
(b)   a written undertaking to inform the CSDP or broker, as the case may be, should the circumstances
      affecting the reduced rate change or the beneficial owner cease to be the beneficial owner,

both in the form prescribed by the Commissioner for the South African Revenue Service. Non- resident
shareholders are advised to contact their CSDP or broker, as the case may be, to arrange for the
abovementioned documents to be submitted prior to the payment of the distribution if such documents have
not already been submitted.

The dividend is payable to Vukile shareholders in accordance with the timetable set out below:

                                                                                                    2022
Last day to trade cum dividend distribution:                                       Tuesday, 28 June 2022
Shares trade ex dividend distribution:                                           Wednesday, 29 June 2022
Record date:                                                                         Friday, 1 July 2022
Payment date:                                                                        Monday, 4 July 2022

Share certificates may not be dematerialised or rematerialised between Wednesday, 29 June 2022 and Friday,
1 July 2022, both days inclusive. The dividend will be transferred to dematerialised shareholders' CSDP
accounts or broker accounts on Monday, 4 July 2022. Certificated shareholders' dividend payments will be
paid to certificated shareholders' bank accounts on or about Monday, 4 July 2022.

Shares in issue at date of declaration: 980 226 628.

Vukile's income tax reference number: 9331/617/14/3.

9 June 2022


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Date: 09-06-2022 08:01:00
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