National Tax Committee (NTC)

The NTC’s primary role is to co-ordinate and enhance the national and international interests of SAICA’s members and the profession in the field of taxation. In fulfilling this role, the NTC is responsible for commenting on and providing the final position on behalf of SAICA on proposed changes in tax legislation, guides, interpretations and similar matters.

To address the broad scope of this mandate and the numerous taxes involved, the NTC may create specialist subcommittees and sub delegate its advocating mandate to them. Furthermore, to effect the mandate of the SAICA Constitution of reasonable constituency representation of committees in South Africa, and in support of the South African based Regional Councils mandate, in facilitating active SAICA member participation in technical committees, the NTC may create regional tax committees in accordance with these terms of reference.

The comprehensive objectives of the NTC are set out in its Terms of Reference (add link on website). The NTC in collaboration with the SAICA Tax Division oversees the following subcommittees:

Technical Tax Advocacy Subcommittees:

Employees Tax subcommittee
Transfer Pricing subcommittee
Exchange Control subcommittee
Value Added Tax subcommittee
Carbon Tax subcommittee

Tax Operational Advocacy and Engagement Subcommittees

National Tax Operations subcommittee and its 9 SARS regional stakeholder forums

Tax Administration subcommittee

Tax Technology subcommittee

Member Consultation Tax Subcommittees

Northern Region subcommittee

Southern Region subcommittee

Central Region subcommittee

Eastern Region subcommittee

Due to its strategic importance, only SAICA members can become NTC members, though subcommittees are open to all industry specialists. Appointment is through an open application process followed by a NTC shortlisting. Governance is achieved through approval by the SAICA Board Nominations & Governance Committee and final appointed by the SAICA Board. As a member body, it is important that the NTC represents the membership broadly and members are elected to represent the following constituencies:

Large public practice firms;

Small and medium practice firms;

Academia;

Members representing SAICA’s South African regional constituencies;

Members outside public practice i.e. legal firms;

Commerce and industry; and

Co-opted members as deemed necessary by the NTC.

Below are the current NTC members who represent the SAICA membership.

David Warneke

CHAIRPERSON - Date of first appointment: 2015/10/01

David leads BDO’s Tax Consulting Division in the Western Cape. He is Adjunct Associate Professor in Tax at the University of Cape Town, is the...

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Tarryn Atkinson

DEPUTY CHAIRPERSON (Commerce & Industry) - Date of first appointment: 2017/11/01

Other committees: Tax Administration Sub-committee

Tarryn Atkinson is a Chartered Accountant (South Africa). She is also a qualified attorney and holds...

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Arnaaz Camay

(Members outside Public Practice) - Date of first appointment: 2015/10/01

Other committees: Transfer Pricing Sub-committee

Arnaaz Camay is an Executive in ENSafrica’s Tax practice. She is a qualified chartered accountant and specialises...

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Mr Azwinndini Magadani

Date of first appointment: 2017/05/01

CA(SA) is a Tax Advisory Partner at SNG Grant Thornton, Azwinndini has over 14 years of experience in tax consulting and auditing environments and has serviced clients...

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Daniel Flanagan

Date of first appointment:2016/01/01

Other committees: Southern Region Tax Sub-committee

Daniel is a Tax Director in the Business Tax Division of Deloitte Africa Tax and Legal. He has been with Deloitte for...

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Pieter van der Zwan

Date of first appointment: 2015/10/01

Other committees: Central Region Tax Sub-committee

Pieter van der Zwan is a CA(SA) and holds a master’s degree in taxation from the University of Pretoria. He is...

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Fathima Dawood

Date of first appointment: 2019/05/01

Other committees: National Tax Operations Sub-committee, Eastern Region Sub-committee and Carbon Tax Sub-committee

Fathima is a CA(SA) and a Tax and Derivative Manager at RCL Foods Ltd....

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Muneer Hassan

Date of first appointment: 2020/05/13

Muneer Hassan is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Johannesburg. Muneer lectures Taxation to Honours/CTA students. He joined the University of Johannesburg during 2015 and previously...

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Russell Smith

Date of first appointment: 2020/11/06

Russell is an Associate Partner in the Cape Town tax practice of EY. He has experience at the South African Revenue Services ‘SARS’. He spent two years...

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Kubashni Moodley

Date of first appointment: 2021/10/27

Kubashni Moodley is a Tax Partner at PKF Durban Chartered Accountants and Business Advisers (PKF Durban). She graduated at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in 2005 and qualified...

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Piet Janse van Rensburg

Date of first appointment: 2022/02/01

Other committees: Chairperson - Northern Region Sub-committee

Current Role at Nedbank: Head of Tax Risk Management & Regulatory Compliance

Piet is the current Head of Tax Risk...

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Divan van der Merwe

Date of first appointment:2022/10/27

Divan is an independent tax and financial reporting consultant with broad experience in the fields of international and SA corporate income tax, with specialisation in the areas of...

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Dirk Jansen van Vuuren

Date of first appointment: 2023/05/04

Other committees: National Tax Operations Sub-committee

Dirk is the Head of Group Tax at Pepkor. He has more than 28 year’s tax experience and has headed up...

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Aleweyah Price

Date of first appointment: 2023/06/14

Aleweyah is the Lead: Old Mutual Group Tax. She is a CA (SA) with an Honours in Tax. She has over 20 years of experience in the...

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