Economist: Policy Costings (Re-advertisement) at National Treasury

Qualification/s Requirements

• A Grade 12 is required coupled with a minimum National Diploma (equivalent to NQF level 6) or Bachelor’s. degree (equivalent to NQF level 7) in Economics or Accounting or Finance or Information Systems;
• A minimum of 3 years’ experience obtained within a tax/ tax data revenue management environment; 
• Knowledge of the broader tax policy framework; and
• knowledge and experience of data dissemination and integrity.

Key Performance Areas

Develop micro simulation models for corporate income tax (CIT), personal income tax (PIT) and value-added tax (VAT):

• Assist with the development of excel-based micro simulation models to simulate policy options for PIT, CIT, and VAT;
• Assist with regular updating of the micro-simulation models; and
• Assist with use of micro simulation models to estimate the revenue and distributional impacts of proposed policy interventions. 

Annual tax incentive reviews:

• Assist policy directorates with data and methodological requirements to perform tax incentive reviews.

Preparation, publication and development of tax expenditure statement and annual tax review (Tax Statistics publication):

• Assist with compiling the annual tax review and ensure accuracy and integrity of data;
• Coordinate inputs from the Tax Policy unit into the publication;
• Provide inputs to the South African Revenue Service (SARS) with the compiling of tables and graphs on tax revenue statistical data;
• Assist with conducting research on international tax expenditure reporting and methodological best practices to enhance South Africa’s current reporting;
• Assist with the determination of data requirements on tax expenditures in conjunction with SARS; and
• Assist with the publishing of statistical tables and graphs for the tax expenditure statement in the annual Budget Review.

Assist directorates with modelling of economic impact and revenue implications of different tax policy proposals:

• Assist with analysis estimating the revenue implications of specific tax proposals; and
• Justify and motivate the quantification of economic commonness of various taxes.