Director: Corporate Structuring at National Treasury

Qualification/s Requirements

• A Grade 12 is required coupled with a minimum Bachelor’s degree (equivalent to NQF level 7) in Tax or Law or Accounting;
• A minimum 5 years’ experience at middle or senior managerial level obtained a business tax environment or within an internationally recognised financial institution;
• Knowledge and experience of the broader legal drafting and tax legislation techniques;
• Knowledge and experience of research and benchmarking; and
• Successful completion of the Nyukela Public Service Senior Management Leadership Programme as endorsed by the National School of Government available as an online course on https://www.thensg.gov.za/training-course/sms-pre-entry-programme/, prior to finalisation of an appointment.

Key Performance Areas

Large Business Tax: 

• Prepare and assign large business tax policy proposals for the annual Budget Review, e.g. corporate re-organisation rules, dividend tax regime, tax deduction and allowances;
• Prepare policy documents on large business tax and provide inputs to drafter’s notes for legislation; and
• Provide legislative oversight and inputs to amendments to explanatory memoranda on large businesses.

Small Business Tax: 

• Prepare policy proposals for the annual Budget Review on small business tax, e.g. presumptive tax, small business relief;
• Prepare policy documents on small business tax and provide inputs to drafter’s notes for legislative integration; and
• Provide legislative oversight and inputs to amendments to explanatory memoranda on small businesses. 

Corporate Finance: 

• Initiate the preparation of policy proposals for the annual Budget Review on corporate finance, e.g. limit tax base erosion via interest deductions and other payments, monitoring of transfer pricing rules, and neutralising the effects of hybrid mismatch arrangements;
• Prepare policy documents and provide inputs to drafter’s notes on legislative matters; and
• Provide legislative oversight of amendments and inputs to explanatory memoranda. 

Specialised Business Entities: 

• Prepare policy proposals for the annual Budget Review on specialised business entities, e.g. tax ttreatment of trusts, co-operatives, ppartnerships;
• Initiate the preparation of policy documents and drafter notes for integration into legislation;
• Provide inputs to legislative oversight amendments and explanatory memoranda; and
• Provide inputs to parliamentary enquiries timeously.