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Webber Wentzel
15TH FLOOR, CONVENTION TOWER
HEERENGRACHT, FORESHORE
CAPE TOWN 8001
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. She spent a term working for KPMG in their tax division and was also involved in preparing their submissions to Parliament on the Companies Act. Joon has advised entities listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange, as well as unlisted companies and various clients in amongst others, financial services, mining, retail and pharmaceuticals.

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