Overview

Stay up to date in the fast-paced world of tax by participating in our regular monthly updates. This is the last monthly tax update in our 2020 series. In this session, we will bring you the latest tax news and developments, including –

- Update on the 2020 Amendment Bills

- Guidance on claiming tax deductions for home office expenditure (as requested in last months webinar)

- Latest case judgments

- Highlights related to recent updates to SARS documents such as Rulings, Interpretation Notes, Notices, etc.

The webinar unpacks these developments, taking a practical approach to help you understand how the legislation and developments in the tax space may affect you, your employer and your clients. Join us for this webinar that promises to be extremely valuable in providing an overview of the most important changes and developments. #Be current! #Be relevant!

Dates

• 19 November

Presenter

Professor Jackie Arendse 

PhD MTP(SA) Chartered Accountant (SA)

After completing her training at Deloitte and qualifying as a Chartered Accountant, Jackie was Group Financial Accountant for a top-100 listed company before moving to academia where she has authored, lectured and researched on all aspects of tax for more than 20 years.

She served as Project Director: Tax at the South African Institute of Chartered Accountants (SAICA) between 2004 and 2006, managing relationships with key stakeholders (especially SARS and National Treasury), enhancing SAICA members’ tax competence and representing SAICA in discussions with Government on tax policy and legislation.

Jackie was Head of the School of Accountancy at Wits University from 2009 until 2013 and has been Head of the Department of Accounting at Rhodes University since July 2014.

Jackie has presented tax seminars and webinars to tax practitioners and businesses around the country for many years and has authored numerous books, articles and publications in the field of taxation including Silke on South African Income Tax. She is the managing author of Silke on Tax Administration, published by LexisNexis and updated annually.

She is involved in an exciting new collaboration with The Tax Faculty to digitise tax training materials.

CPD

This webinar and successful completion of the online assessment will secure 2 hours verifiable output TAXCPD points/units.