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  • The 11th Global Conference on Environmental Taxation issues

    Posted on November 18, 2010

    Mr Gerhard Nienaber from the University of Pretoria and Rudie Nel of Stellenbosch University jointly presented a paper 'Prospects of proposed vehicle emissions tax reducing CO2 emissions in South Africa' at the 11th Global Conference on Environmental Taxa

  • SAICA 2010 Limpopo/Mpumalanga Spring Conference

    Posted on October 26, 2010

    Mr Piet Nel presented a Tax Update paper on 4 October at the South African Institute of Chartered Accountants' (SAICA) 2010 Limpopo/Mpumalanga Spring Conference that took place in White River, Mpumalanga.

  • Paper delivered at conference

    Posted on October 26, 2010

    Prof Madeleine Stiglingh, Head of the Department of Taxation presented a paper titled A conceptual service quality model for SARS during the 2010 South African Institute of Tax Practitioners (SAIT) Conference that took place at the Sandton Convention Cent

  • Deneys Reitz prize-giving function

    Posted on October 26, 2010

    Prof Madeleine Stiglingh, Head of the Department of Taxation and winner in the doctoral category of the Deneys Reitz Tax Thesis Competition for 2010, received her prize on 14 October during a function that was held at the Sandton Convention Centre.

  • Deneys Reitz Tax Thesis competition

    Posted on September 23, 2010

    The winners of the Deneys Reitz Tax Thesis competition for 2010 has been announced. Prof Madeleine Stiglingh of the Department of Taxation is the winner in the doctoral category.

  • Facebook group for BEL220

    Posted on September 02, 2010

    Based on the statistics, it is clear that Facebook is a very powerful tool. Why not incorporate it into the teaching environment?

  • Tax on Trusts Seminar

    Posted on September 02, 2010

    Advocate David Meyerowitz, who is 94 years old this year, is regarded as a living legend for most tax professionals in South Africa.

  • Article accepted by Accredited International Journal

    Posted on July 19, 2010

    Mr Gerhard Nienaber wrote an article 'Factors that could influence the behavior of tax professionals' that has been accepted for publication in Meditari Accountancy Research, Volume 18, Number 1, 2010.

  • Qualifying medical costs in respect of children with special needs

    Posted on July 19, 2010

    One of our senior lecturers, Mrs Liza Coetzee, presented a talk on 8 June at the Maranatha Bana Centre in Centurion. The Income Tax Act has recently been amended regarding which costs in respect of your special need child's condition you can claim for nor

  • Skill Programme

    Posted on July 19, 2010

    Three staff members from the Department of Taxation (i.e. Mr Piet Nel, Adv Redge de Swardt and Mrs Karen Stark) were among the candidates that were privileged to attend the SKILL programme, a pre-PhD training programme which is an initiative of the Royal

  • Attendance of conference

    Posted on May 11, 2010

    Sharon Smulders presented a paper at the 9th International Conference on Tax Administration which was hosted by The Australian School of Taxation of the University of New South Wales on 8 and 9 April 2010 in Sydney.

  • Virtual Tax Meeting

    Posted on May 11, 2010

    The Virtual Tax Meeting is a repetition of the monthly Tax Meeting that is presented on Thursday evenings on the Main Campus. On Friday,16 April 2010 Adv Redge de Swardt and Mr Piet Nel presented the first Virtual Tax Meeting as a trial run via the Intern

  • Workshops presented

    Posted on April 15, 2010

    Mrs Sharon Smulders presented workshops during the course of March all over the country which were aimed to provide an awareness of the skills and techniques of writing a taxation opinion successfully.

  • BCom Taxation Bursary Holder

    Posted on March 15, 2010

    Tsholo Letshoene, a second year BCom Option in Taxation student, was awarded a full bursary from Massmart Holdings.

  • Prize-giving Function

    Posted on March 15, 2010

    The Department of Taxation and Department of Accountancy jointly held their prize-giving function on 24 February 2010 for undergraduate, Honours and Masters students who performed best in their distinctive subjects during 2009.

  • Article Accepted by Accredited International Journal

    Posted on February 12, 2010

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  • Tax Update Seminar

    Posted on February 12, 2010

    The Tax Update Seminar was presented by Mr Piet Nel and Adv Redge de Swardt to an Afrikaans audience of 130 attendees on 28 January 2010 and to an English audience of 50 delegates on 29 January 2010.

  • Certificate Ceremony

    Posted on February 12, 2010

    A certificate ceremony was held on 28 January 2010 at the Innovation Hub for students who completed the Certificate and Advanced Certificate courses in Taxation. The courses are presented by the Department of Taxation through CE@UP.

  • BCom Hons and MCom/LLM Taxation Open Day

    Posted on February 12, 2010

    The Department arranged an open day for the first-time BCom Honours (Taxation) and BCom Masters (Taxation) students on 30 January 2010. The students were welcomed and introduced to the programme and the lecturers.

  • UP Masters student wins Deneys Reitz Tax Thesis Competition 2009

    Posted on November 03, 2009

    A gala award function for the winners of the Deneys Reitz Tax Thesis Competition took place on 7 October 2009 at the Michael Angelo Hotel in Sandton. Jan Bosman of the University of Pretoria was the joint winner in the Mater

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