UP Taxation Dept academics predict Supreme Court of Appeal ruling on government’s COVID-19 tobacco ban

Posted on July 04, 2022

Professor Teresa Pidduck and Sumarie Swanepoel predicted the case’s eventual outcome in a paper titled ‘Sobering up in South Africa: The Sin Tax Consequences of a Pandemic’ and published in December 2021.

EMS students restore dignity of school girls with pad donation

Posted on June 28, 2022

The lack of access to sanitary pads for underprivileged school girls at Tswaing Secondary School in Winterveld, Pretoria, touched the hearts of students in the Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences (EMS) and prompted them to step in and assist by donating over 400 packs of sanitary pads to...

Financial Sciences achievers awarded

Posted on June 23, 2022

The 2022 Financial Sciences Annual Awards Function was held on 24 May 2022 where awards were presented to 46 students in both undergraduate and postgraduate programmes from the four financial sciences departments, Taxation, Accounting, Financial Management, and Auditing.

#UPGraduation2022: UP confers honorary doctorate on public finance and taxation specialist Prof Sijbren Cnossen

Posted on May 16, 2022

Professor Sijbren Cnossen is recognised as an international authority in the field of public finance and taxation, and previously held the position of extraordinary professor at UP's African Tax Institute.

Three more NRF A-rated researchers for the University of Pretoria

Posted on April 11, 2022

The University of Pretoria is proud to add a hat trick of three new National Research Foundation A-rated researchers to its rapidly growing list of NRF-rated researchers, now at 595, which is the highest nationally.

UP students make their mark in the 2022 SAICA ITC with stellar results

Posted on March 25, 2022

“We pride ourselves on the quality of graduates that we produce. These excellent results attest to the quality of our teaching and learning,” said EMS Dean Prof Margaret Chitiga-Mabugu, as UP celebrates a 99,4% pass rate in the 2022 SAICA ITC.

UP Taxation academics celebrate publication of research on sin tax consequences of a pandemic

Posted on March 24, 2022

Prof Teresa Pidduck and Sumarie Swanepoel have been celebrated for the impact of their article published in the New Zealand Journal of Taxation Law and Policy.

EXPERT OPINION: Social contract still in tatters after budget and state of the nation address

Posted on March 07, 2022

Our social contract has not been salvaged, neither by the state of the nation address nor by a national budget that could admittedly have been much worse had we not been granted a reprieve by our old faithful, the mining sector. The asymmetrical enforcement of the social contract violates the...