The Supreme Court of Appeal confirms that 15% VAT is chargeable on cross-border goods and services. For vendors flouting the provisions of the Value-Added Tax Act, 1991 in attempt for their supplies to be (incorrectly) zero-rated, the consequences could be disastrous; a lesson which a vendor learned when it approached the Supreme Court of Appeal (“the SCA”) in Diageo South Africa (Pty) Ltd v Commissioner for the South African Revenue Service (330/2019) [2020] ZASCA 34 (“Diageo”).