Tax Team Contacts |
Johannesburg
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Nazrien Kader Tel: +27 (0)11 209 6030 As well as being the service line leader for Deloitte Taxation Services, Southern Africa and a member of the Deloitte Executive Committee, Nazrien is also the Lead Director of the Financial Services tax team at Deloitte. She is involved in consulting to a portfolio of corporate listed-to-medium sized clients in the financial services industry on a wide range of income tax issues. Nazrien has played a senior tax advisory role in several complex corporate transactions. Before relocating to Johannesburg she was the former Regional Lead Director for Taxation Services in Kwazulu-Natal. |
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Louise Vosloo Tel: +27 (0)11 806 5360 Louise is a Director and an admitted attorney specialising in International Tax matters. Louise leads a highly skilled team of tax professionals in the International Tax Services Group at Deloitte, based in Johannesburg. Over her career spanning almost two decades, she has built an exemplary reputation as a Corporate Tax expert with a strong international tax focus. She has been instrumental in advising on highly complex, cross-border transactions by multi-national companies, including listings on the London Stock Exchange, major BEE transactions and the setting up of intermediary holding company structures in foreign jurisdictions. |
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Jed Michaletos Tel: +27 (0)11 806 5621 Jed is the Lead Director for Customs & Global Trade team at Deloitte. Jed has over 10 years experience in Customs and Excise and |
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Izak Swart Tel: +27 (0)11 806 5685 Izak is a Director within the Government Growth Initiative (GGI) team that is based in the Johannesburg office of Deloitte. GGI specialises in securing grants and incentives, such as grants with respect to Research and Development expenditure and other strategic industry-related Government incentives. He has been involved in direct tax for over 15 of years and has consulted to a number of large multi-nationals and has advised clients in various industries. He specialises in the areas of carbon tax and has been advising on carbon tax since 2009. He is a member of SAICA’s tax sub-committee on carbon taxes. Izak’s team comprises a large, diverse group of individuals with strong consulting skills in this area. |
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Severus Smuts Tel: +27 (0)11 806 5334 Severus is lead director of the VAT team at Deloitte. He has over 17 years of experience practising South African VAT and has advised several of our largest multi-national clients on complex VAT issues across a range of industries, including the automotive, media, retail, financial and manufacturing industries. Severus represents Deloitte at the SAICA VAT sub-committee and a leads a very experienced team of VAT professionals, based in Gauteng. |
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Izél du Plessis Tel: +27 (0)12 482 0125 Izél is a Director who leads the Corporate Tax Business Unit based in Pretoria. She has 16 years of corporate tax experience on a wide range of matters and transactions. Her primary focus is corporate income tax. She has gained extensive experience in all aspects of corporate tax through involvement with a variety of listed and high-profile groups. |
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Billy Joubert Tel: +27 (0)11 806 5352 Billy is the director in charge of the South African |
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Bernadette Abbott Tel: +27 (0)11 806 5188 Bernadette is the leader of the Global Employer Services business unit at Deloitte. The unit specialises in the area of the taxation of executive benefits and incentives. Bernadette specialises in all services related to expatriate employees and the related international tax surrounding their secondment to and from South Africa. Bernadette attends global conferences and has produced articles and presentations on the taxation of globally mobile employees. |
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Kamal Ramsingh Email: kramsingh@deloitte.co.za Kamal holds a BSC in Computer Science from the University of Natal and a Masters in Business Leadership (Cum Laude) from UNISA. After 11 years with Deloitte Consulting, of which the last four were as a partner responsible for the Telecommunications Industry Practice, he assumed the position of Managing Director at Simeka Management consulting (SMC) in 2003. He led SMC’s significant growth over the next few years with strategic account and staff acquisitions in the Public and Private sectors. After leaving Simeka in May 2008, Kamal acted as both a specialist advisor to several large organisations and as and as institutional mentor to several growing ICT Services firms. In March 2011 he rejoined Deloitte and leads the Technology Consulting Practice |
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Kay Walsh Email: kaywalsh@deloitte.co.za Kay Walsh is a Lead in Economic Advisory at Deloitte’s Strategy and Innovation practice. Prior to joining Deloitte, Kay was an economist in the Financial Markets Research Unit at Rand Merchant Bank where she maintained the bank’s economic forecasts and published weekly macroeconomic research pieces on the South Africa and other Sub-Saharan African countries. Kay has also represented RMB and Deloitte on various national business and news television media providing economic commentary and insight. |
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Suren Dharamlall Email: sdharamlall@deloitte.co.za Suren is a director in the corporate tax department of our South Africa practice. He is a qualified chartered accountant with 12 years of experience as a tax specialist. Suren has consulted to a broad range of clients including clients in the aviation, mining, manufacturing, services and private equity industries. Suren also heads up the mining tax practice. |
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Alex Gwala Email: agwala@deloitte.co.za Alex is an associate director in the corporate tax department of our South Africa practice. He has over 10 years of experience as a tax specialist, including working at SARS and Ernst Young. Alex has consulted to a broad range of clients including clients in the manufacturing, services and mining industry. |
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Musa Manyathi Tel: +27 (0)11 209 8323 Musa is an attorney and an Associate Director in the International Tax division. |
Cape Town
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Riaan Smit Tel: +27 (0)21 427 5506 Riaan specialises in customs and excise duties, providing customs and excise advice to a variety of corporate clients. He has consulted extensively to the petroleum, liquor, tobacco and spirits industries, and has assisted with the implementation and/or compliance consulting and training of “Duty at Source” (“DAS”). |
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Hester Hopkins Tel: +27 (0)21 427 5496 Hester has experience in a wide range of Customs technical matters, having started her career with SARS, Customs, 23 years ago, garnering operational, legal and international experience throughout Africa and some Asian countries. She specialises in tariff classification, customs valuation, structuring clients’ transactions to optimise clearance times, postpone or minimise customs duties and free trade zones. She has delivered Customs related training programs both to Customs authorities worldwide as well as private sector clients and holds an internationally recognised Masters Degree: International Customs Law and Administration. |
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Anthea Scholtz Tel: +27 (0)21 427 5504 Anthea is a director in Tax and a chartered accountant. She specializes in corporate tax, personal tax and expatriate taxes and provides tax advisory and tax compliance services to a number of multi-national companies. She is the leader of the national Tax Oil and Gas Industry team for South Africa and also heads up the Oil and Gas Industry group for the broader Cape Town office. Anthea is also the leader of the Cape Town Global Employer Services unit and is currently the national chairperson of the Deloitte Women in Leadership group for South Africa. |
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Tracy Smith Tel: +27 (0)21 427 5507 Tracy specialises in employees’ tax, expatriate |
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Philip Fouche Tel: +27 (0)21 427 5488 Philip’s main areas of focus are transfer pricing |
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Moray Wilson Tel: +27 (0)21 427 5515 Moray’s areas of expertise cover both corporate and individual taxation, with a particular focus on the area of tax management consulting. He has been involved in many due diligence investigations, writing articles for the press and in giving technical training to staff and clients on various tax topics. Moray has worked with clients in a wide range of industries, with particular focus on the tourism and oil and gas industries. |
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Luke Barlow Tel: +27 (0)21 427 5480 Luke heads up the Cape Town tax practice. He has been with Deloitte for 29 years, of which 23 have been as a Director. He specialises in corporate restructures and re-organisations. Luke has extensive tax experience in the financial and mining sectors, and was named one of South Africa’s leading tax experts in capital markets in “World Tax 2009”, published by the International Tax Review, and in “Guide to the World’s Leading Tax Advisors 2012”, published by Euromoney. |
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Geoff Kroon Tel: +27 (0)21 427 5495 Geoff has experience in a broad range of tax areas, with a strong corporate focus. His particular area of expertise is cross-border transactions, including the structuring of groups and tax treaty application, residence basis of taxation, withholding taxes and foreign tax credits, thin capitalisation, expatriate taxation, and VAT on international transactions. |
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Le Roux Roelofse Tel: +27 (0)21 427 5502 Le Roux specialises in all aspects of corporate tax, with a specific focus on international tax, and mergers and acquisitions. Le Roux has provided tax structuring advice and/or due diligence services to a number of local and international companies, and advice on inbound and outbound investments. He has specialist experience in the mining, oil and gas, and retail industries. Le Roux was named one of South Africa’s leading tax advisers in the 2012 Guide to the World’s Leading Tax advisers, published by Euromoney. |
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Danny Flanagan Tel: +27 (0)21 427 5487 Daniel provides advice on various aspects of corporate tax to a number of large and mediumsized clients in the manufacturing, retail and service industries. He has been involved in a number of due diligence investigations and corporate restructures, and has extensive experience in representing his clients in SARS matters, having achieved various favourable outcomes to the clients he serves. |
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Patrick McCann Tel: +27 (0)21 427 5490 Patrick consults widely on corporate tax issues, with specific focus on the financial services and manufacturing sectors. He is active in providing general tax advice, tax structuring, corporate restructure and inbound investment advice. Patrick is the regional leader of the Deloitte School of Tax. |
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Melanie Milleskie Tel: +27 (0)21 427 5498 Melanie consults widely on corporate tax issues, with specific focus on the financial services sector. She is a member of our technical development team. |
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Peter Donaldson Tel: +27 (0)21 427 5483 Peter consults to a number of multi-national clients on corporate and international tax issues with a focus on the financial services, mining and farming sectors. Peter is also part of the mergers and acquisitions team and has been involved in due diligence assignments and corporate re-structuring advice. |
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Mark Silver Tel: +27 (0)21 427 5505 Mark is the leader of our VAT practice in our Cape Town. He was extensively involved in the introduction of VAT in 1991, has presented numerous seminars and workshops on the topic and is the editor of the publication VAT Handbook. He consults to a wide spectrum of large corporate clients. |
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Chris Eagar Tel: +27 (0)21 427 5484 Chris specialises in VAT consulting and assignments with a particular focus on the identification of VAT savings for a wide variety of corporate and public sector clients. He consults extensively to the tertiary education sector and local government and regularly presents industry focused VAT workshops to a variety of corporate clients. |
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Angus Dawe Tel: +27 (0)21 427 5482 Angus is a customs and excise duties specialist. He has a specific focus on the Petroleum Industry and has a sound understanding of practices within the petroleum industry. He consults to a number of multinational clients within the Petroleum and Liquor industries and has extensive experience in performing compliance reviews, risk reviews, systems audits and assisting clients in these industries with obtaining refunds. He has also successfully represented various clients in disputes with SARS. |
KwaZulu-Natal
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Mark Freer Tel: +27 (0)31 560 7079 Mark has 19 years of specialist tax experience with Deloitte and has been a Tax director since 1999. He is the business unit leader for Tax in KwaZulu-Natal. Mark provides corporate tax services to a number of large entities. His current clients include Grindrod, Mondi, Toyota, Illovo and Unilever. |
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Christopher Clarke Tel: +27 (0)031 560 7005 Chris has 25 years of tax experience and is a director at Deloitte, Durban. He specialises in corporate income tax in the manufacturing, automotive, agriculture, retail and consumer business industries. Chris is a member of SAICA and IRBA, a registered Tax Practitioner and a past member of the SAICA Tax Committee. |
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Peter Maxwell Tel: +27 (031 560 7067 Peter has 25 years of specialist tax experience with Deloitte, and has been a tax director since 2000. He is the leader of the Indirect Tax |
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Thrisha Soni Tel: +27 (0)31 560 7013 Thrisha is a Tax Director at Deloitte and has developed 12 years experience in the area of corporate taxation. Her tax experience |
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Bradley Pearson Tel: +27 (0)31 560 7426 Bradley is an Associate Director at Deloitte and has provided corporate tax advisory services to SA clients in the manufacturing, retail and agribusiness industries since he joined the firm in 1999. This includes advising national and multinational clients on corporate |
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Faisal Khan Tel: +27 (0)31 560 7061 Faisal is an Associate Director and has more than 10 years of tax experience with Deloitte. He provides corporate tax advisory services |
Port Elizabeth
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Lise Claassen Tel: +27 (0)41 398 4009 Lise is an associate director in the Deloitte Port Elizabeth office and a qualified chartered accountant. She has 15 years’ experience in corporate tax and her clients include large multi-nationals based in the Eastern Cape. Lise also focuses on VAT compliance and training |
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Clive Sharwood Tel: +27 (0)41 398 4004 Clive is an associate director based in the Deloitte Port Elizabeth office. Clive has over 23 years in consulting on tax matters, including |
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Chris Green Tel: +27 (0)41 398 4015 Chris Green is an associate director based in our Port Elizabeth office. Chris is responsible for the national Deloitte tax learning function |
Pretoria
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Izél du Plessis Tel: +27 (0)12 482 0125 Izél is a Director who leads the Corporate Tax Business Unit based in Pretoria. She has 16 years of corporate tax experience on a wide |
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Annemarie Schroeder Tel: +27 (012 482 0128 Annemarie is a tax director specialising in the field of South African income tax, she has advised several of our significant clients on a number of income tax issues across a range of industries including the telecommunications, technology, retail, financial and manufacturing industries. Annemarie also has extensive experience in the public sector including public private partnerships and the privatisation and commercialisation of state-owned entities and parastatals. |
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Jacqui Wierzbowski Tel: +27 (011 806 5310 Jacqui is a director specialising in VAT and has advised several of our largest clients across a range of industries, including |
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Jed Michaletos Tel: +27 (0)11 806 5621 Jed is the Lead Director for Customs & Global Trade team at Deloitte. Jed has over 10 years experience in Customs and Excise and advises a number of multinational clients. Jed is the former chairman of the Trade and Business Environmental Committee of the American Chamber of Commerce in South Africa (“AMCHAM”) – a position he held for the past 3 years. Jed is the Vice Chairman of the Customs & Excise sub-committee of the South African Institute of Chartered Accountants (“SAICA”) Taxation Committee. Jed and his team have built up a reputation as the most comprehensive Customs and Excise service provider in South Africa as his team offers advice on all aspects of duty applications, duty relief mechanisms and lobbying and customs consulting. |
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Louise Vosloo Tel: +27 (0)11 806 5360 Louise is a director and an admitted attorney specialising in International Tax matters. Louise leads a highly skilled team of tax |
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Newton Cockcroft Tel: +27 (0)11 806 5298 Newton is a Director based in the Johannesburg office of Deloitte, leading the Government Growth Initia¬tive (GGI) team. GGI specialises in securing grants and incentives, such as grants with respect to Research and Development expenditure and other strategic |
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Suzanne van der Merwe Tel: +27 (0)11 209 6779 Suzanne is the Public Sector Industry leader for Tax. She consults for various Major Public Entities, National Public Entities, National Suzanne was a Taxation officer at the Commissioner for the South African Revenue Service where she did extensive Value-Added Tax |
