Dear Subscriber,

Last week I spoke about PROFESSIONAL TAX EXPERTS PROFILING and how TAXtalk is out to profile the specialists and experts in the tax industry so that we all know who these experts are.

In an article posted in the TAXtalk newsletter last week, Sanchia Temkin, professional services editor wrote an article titled: Tax judges "need to be experts", this article touches on the issue of the need for specialised tax attorneys and experts to act as judges. SA's tax court judges have been accused of not always having sufficient knowledge or experience to hear the cases that come before them.

Sanchia reports that SA has specialised tax courts, but the judges are drawn from other courts and many of them have no specialist training in tax. Prof Bob Williams, a tax expert at the University of Kwazulu-Natal, says that tax court judges do need to be specialists and experts in tax law.

The changes that are taking place in tax legislation are at such a rapid pace, they are unlike those in any other area of law. Emil Brincker commented in this article that a judge should have some grounding in tax law and that it requires someone who deals with tax law and business on a daily basis.

Sanchia writes that specialisation in any field is always more desirable when representing the business community keeping in mind that tax is a complicated area of law.

How many of us actually know who our tax experts and specialists are in the tax industry?

TAXtalk does Professional Profiling of the tax experts in the industry. We introduce you to South Africa´s tax specialists; they are the faces of the corporate tax industry.

In every Issue we will be introducing you to a new tax expert and professional tax specialist. We will interview the professional on their area of expertise and in a two page spread they will give you their expert opinions and comments on their area of tax law.


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Till next week.
Janine Connor
Head of TAXtalk

Interview with Ben-Schoeman Geldenhuys, head of tax at Anglo Platinum - Summit TV

A new royalty bill is in the pipeline for the mining industry. Ben-Schoeman Geldenhuys, head of tax at Anglo Platinum discussed the proposed bill.

PricewaterhouseCoopers

Effective 1 September 2007 - purchasers of South African fixed property will be required to deduct a Withholding Tax from the price paid to the seller, if the seller is a non-resident.

eTaxjobs is a global job portal exclusively for tax professionals, and an online resource for employers and recruitment firms to advertise their vacancies. eTaxjobs operate in the UK, Europe, USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Africa and around the World.

Available tax jobs for this week are:

• VAT Advisor, Vodafone, Newbury, UK
• Transfer Pricing Senior Manager, FS, London, UK
• Tax Manager, Group & Front Office Advisory, London, UK
• US (Expatriate) Tax Professional, Saudi Arabia
• Senior Tax Manager, Multinational, Switzerland

Sanchia Temkin, Professional Services Editor - Business Day

THE suggestion by one of SA´s leading tax experts, that the granting of tax incentives for purposes of foreign direct investment is “fundamentally bad” has raised eyebrows in both business and labour sectors.

BizNetwork

Many small businessmen are unaware of the tools and avenues available to them to market their business. What better way to stimulate innovation among aspirant entrepreneurs in South Africa than to expose them to the thinking of some of our own innovators in the business field.

If you were Rip van Winkle and took a nap on July 24, just after the JSE All Share stuck its nose above 30 000 points, and woke up today (with the JSE 14% lower), you would be forgiven for asking whether this was all just a bad dream.

TAXtalk invites you to write an article in which you share your views and expertise on tax. Your article can be published in the newsletter for 7000 readers to view, on our website for over 100 000 viewers to see and in the TAXtalk magazine(with your photo) for more than 16 000 readers to read. Make an impression, submit your article NOW.

Article Requirements:
1 Page Article : 900 words  1½ Page Article : 1350 words  2 Page Article : 1800 words
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Submit your article to: janine@taxtalk.co.za or post it to: (P.O Box 1650 Gallo Manor 2052)