The Tax Ombud Annual Report 2019/20
Overview
Join the Office of the Tax Ombud (OTO) CEO Prof. Thabo Legwaila as he unpacks the Tax Ombud Annual Report 2019/20 on 3 December 2020 at 15:00.
The session will address the following points:
- The mandate of the Tax Ombud
- A basic summary of the report (highlights of the 2019/2020 tax year and challenges experienced)
- How and why citizens/taxpayers are using the OTO
- How this year’s tax season complaints have differed from those of previous years
- Accessibility of the Tax Ombud and how citizens can lodge a complaint
Presenter
Prof. Thabo Legwaila, CEO
OTO CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER

Prof. Legwaila has been a Senior Lecturer at the University of Stellenbosch, Visiting Fellow at Harvard University, Senior Tax Consultant at KPMG and later Ernst & Young, Director of Business Tax at the National Treasury and Head of Africa Tax at Citibank. In addition to serving as CEO of the Office of the Tax Ombud, he is a Professor of Tax at the University of Johannesburg and a member of the Davis Tax Committee.
He holds the following academic qualifications: B Juris (Venda), LLB (Wits), LLM (Wits), Postgraduate Diploma in Tax Law (UCT), LLM (UCT) and LLD (Pretoria). He is co-author and editor of the textbook Tax Law: An Introduction.
CPD
This event and successful completion of the online assessment will secure 1 hours verifiable output Tax CPD points.
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