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Joon Chong

Joon Chong

Webber Wentzel, South Africa

Work Department

Tax Practice

Position

Partner

Career

Joon is a tax specialist. She is an admitted attorney, a Chartered Certified Accountant and a Fellow member of the UK global body of professional accountants, the ACCA. She assists clients with tax opinions, ruling applications, voluntary disclosure applications, South African Revenue Service investigations and audit queries, objections and appeals, alternative dispute resolution and tax litigation and penalty and interest remission applications. She also has experience in group restructures, due diligence investigations, structuring of offshore intermediary holding companies, employee share incentive schemes and mergers and acquisitions. Joon regularly participates in making submissions to SARS and National Treasury on draft tax bills and other practical tax issues affecting taxpayers. She also has experience in dealing with the specific tax issues facing companies in business rescue.​

Memberships

Member of the South African Institute of Chartered Accountants' Employees' Tax Sub-committee Member of the South African Institute of Chartered Accountants' Tax Administration Act Sub-committee Member of the South African Institute of Tax Professionals Employees' Tax workgroup Member of the South African Institute of Tax Professionals Personal and Employment Taxes Technical Work Group Member of the Association for Savings and Investment South Africa Tax Standing Committee, Tax Compliance / Administration and Wealth Tax Working Groups

Education

Chartered Certified Accountant (FCCA), 2019 LLM (Taxation), University of Pretoria, 2014 LLM (Corporate Law) (with distinction), University of Johannesburg, 2014 Advanced Certificate in Tax Practice (with distinction), University of Pretoria, 2010 Passed Levels 1, 2 and 3 of the Chartered Financial Analyst examinations, 2006 to 2009 LLB, University of Cape Town, 2005 Admitted attorney of the High Court of South Africa
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