PROGRAMME
29 SEPTEMBER 2020 WEBCAST PROGRAM
PROGRAM
TIME | TOPIC | SPEAKER |
8:00-8:10 | WELCOME | Pieter Faber /Gigi Nyanin (SAICA Senior Executive: Tax)/ (SAICA Project Director: Tax Publications and Thought Leadership)
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8:10-8:20 | INTRODUCTION | Freeman Nomvalo (SAICA CEO)
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SESSION 1 | GENERAL: This session will set the scene as to how taxpayer rights are catered for in the legal system, with a focus on tax, during a time of crisis.
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8:20-8:40 | Paper 1 – The rule of law in a tax system when there is a disaster.
Questions such as whether, in a time of disaster, there is a clash between current tax provisions and the principle of fairness (as well as other rule of law principles) will be discussed.
| Advocate Julia Boltar
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8:40-9:00 | Q&A session | Panel: Adv Boltar, SARS (Franz Tomasek), OTO, Patricia Williams |
9:00-9:10 | BREAK (10 mins) |
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SESSION 2 | TAXPAYER RIGHTS AND REMEDIES WHEN THEY HAVE A DISASTER: This session will focus on taxpayers’ rights and remedies in a time of disaster (eg. fires, lost documents, IT failures, crime (identity theft), pandemics) and what SARS’ expectation is of them during this time.
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9:10-9:30 | Paper 2 – Taxpayers right to action and redress against the State during a crisis | Patricia Williams (Bowmans: Tax Partner)
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9:30-9:50 | Paper 3 – Legal Professional Privilege (LPP) – taxpayers right to fully disclose disputed facts in confidence to advisors during a time of a disaster?
| Michael Honiball (Werksmans: Partner)
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9:50-10:35 | Q&A session | Panel: All speakers + SARS (Mark Kingon) + NTC (David Warneke) + Piet Nel |
10:35-11:05 | PRACTICAL TIPS & REMEDIES
| Adv Louw + Patricia Williams + Piet Nel + SARS (Mark Kingon) |
11:05-11:35 | LUNCH (30 mins) |
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SESSION 3 | TAXPAYER RIGHTS AND REMEDIES WHEN SARS HAS A DISASTER This session will focus on taxpayer rights and remedies in a time when SARS experiences a disaster (SARS IT failures, pandemic, crime (refund hijack)) and what are taxpayers’ responsibilities during this time.
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11:35-11:55 | Paper 4 – Lessons learnt during a time of a disaster – SARS’ perspective. (What worked and what didn’t work and would have been done better?)
| SARS Commissioner
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11:55-12:15 | Paper 5 – Taxpayers Rights Matter – ensuring fairness during COVID times and beyond | Prof. Thabo Legwaila (CEO: Office of the Tax Ombud)
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12:15-13:00 | Q&A session | All speakers + Patricia Williams + NTC (Muneer Hassan) |
13:00-13:45 | PRACTICAL TIPS & REMEDIES | SARS (Mark Kingon) + Patricia Williams + NTC (Muneer Hassan) |
13:45-13:55 | BREAK (10 mins) |
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SESSION 4 | INTERNATIONAL COMPARISONS and TAXPAYER SERVICE CHARTERS This session will deal with how international organisations have dealt with disasters: what worked, what didn’t and what needs to still be done? It will also touch on taxpayers’ rights and Service Charters – do they protect the rights of taxpayers, and if not, what are the alternatives? | |
13:55-14:35 | PANEL DISCUSSION |
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| Ireland | Dr Brian Keegan (Chartered Accountants Ireland: Director: Public Policy & Tax)
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| UK | Liesl Fichardt (Partner: Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP, UK)
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| OECD | Peter Green (Head: Forum on Tax Administration Secretariat: OECD)
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| African countries | Logan Wort (CEO: African Tax Administration Forum(ATAF)) Lazelle Terblanche (Chairperson: Africa Industry Tax Association) |
| USA | Nina Olson(Executive Director: Center for Taxpayer Rights in the USA)
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14:35-15:00 | Q&A session |
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15:00-15:10 | CLOSE |
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