{"id":239371,"date":"2022-10-07T10:38:16","date_gmt":"2022-10-07T08:38:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/legwaila-appointed-acting-tax-ombud\/"},"modified":"2022-10-07T10:38:16","modified_gmt":"2022-10-07T08:38:16","slug":"legwaila-appointed-acting-tax-ombud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/legwaila-appointed-acting-tax-ombud\/","title":{"rendered":"Legwaila appointed acting Tax Ombud"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana has designated Professor Thabo Legwaila as acting Tax Ombud for a period of three months, effective from 6 October 2022 to 5 January 2023.<\/p>\n

The appointment is in terms of sections 14(3) and 14(4) of the Tax Administration Act, 2011 (Act No 28 of 2011).<\/p>\n

Prof. Legwaila is currently the CEO at the Office of the Tax Ombud and will continue with these responsibilities.<\/p>\n

In a statement, the National Treasury said the acting appointment follows the expiry of the term of office of the first and only Tax Ombud, Judge Bernard Ngoepe on 30 September 2022.<\/p>\n

The retired Judge, who was first appointed in 2013, was in the position for nine years.<\/p>\n

The Treasury said the Minister was \u201ctruly grateful for the sterling work he has done in establishing the Office of the Tax Ombud and steering it for nine years\u201d.<\/p>\n

Since the inception of the Office, Judge Ngoepe spearheaded the goal of the Office to help improve the South African tax administration system and provide a free and fair avenue for resolving taxpayers\u2019 complaints against the South African Revenue Service (SARS).<\/p>\n

Among the achievements of his tenure, the Judge established an automated complaints management system, enabled systemic investigations and comprehensive reporting when necessary (e.g.: alleged delayed payment of refunds by SARS) and published the first Compilation of Taxpayers\u2019 Rights, Entitlements and Obligations to promote taxpayer rights awareness in South Africa.<\/p>\n

The incoming Tax Ombud, Prof. Legwaila, joined the Office of the Tax Ombud as CEO in April 2020.<\/p>\n

He was previously employed as Head of Tax: Africa a Citi Bank from January 2022 to March 2020. During that time, he also joined the University of Johannesburg on a part time basis as Professor of Tax Law and held this position for eight years and nine months. Before then, he was employed as Director: Business Tax within the Tax and Financial Sector Policy Division of National Treasury from July 2006 to December 2010.<\/p>\n

Prof. Legwaila holds a B luris from the University of Venda, a Bachelor of Laws (LLB) and Master of Laws (LLM) degrees from the University of Witwatersrand, a Postgraduate Diploma in Tax Law (PG Dip Tax) and a Master of Laws degree from the University of Cape Town and Doctor of Laws (LLD) from the University of Pretoria.<\/p>\n

Minister Godongwana is confident that Prof. Legwaila will execute the responsibility of this position with diligence.<\/p>\n

The Minister of Finance is commencing the recruitment process for the appointment of the Tax Ombud in terms of section 14 of the Tax Administration Act, 2011. \u2013 SAnews.gov.za<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana has designated Professor Thabo Legwaila as acting Tax Ombud for a period of three months, effective from 6 October 2022 to 5 January 2023. The appointment is in terms of sections 14(3) and 14(4) of the Tax Administration Act, 2011 (Act No 28 of 2011). Prof. Legwaila is currently the CEO […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":239372,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[38678],"class_list":{"0":"post-239371","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-south-africa","8":"tag-sanews","9":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/legwaila-appointed-acting-tax-ombud.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239371\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}