Joubert Botha

Executive Director: Head of Tax and Legal

KPMG in South Africa

Joubert is a qualified Chartered Accountant and is a member of the South African Institute of Chartered Accountants. Joubert has been with KPMG since 1997. Subsequent to the completion of his training contract he was seconded to KPMG’s Birmingham office in the United Kingdom for a period of 3 months where he obtained valuable international experience. On his return from the UK he joined the tax practice of KPMG in 2000. Joubert obtained his Masters in Taxation in 2004 (Thesis entitled: Mergers and Acquisitions: Analysing the tax implications for multinational corporations). Joubert’s experience in tax involves consulting with mainly corporate clients with regard to Tax due diligences, tax planning, tax structuring, audit related tax services and reviews, general tax compliance assignments, providing tax advice and performing risk analyses on current tax structures and systems and providing Tax Management advice to clients in terms of tax processes, controls, strategy etc. Joubert has extensive experience in company restructuring. He has also been involved in a number of VAT assignments at local authorities and provided international executive tax consulting services to various clients. Joubert has presented and provided numerous tax workshops, training and updates to clients as well as to KPMG internally.

  • Tax
  • CA (SA)

  • MComm (Taxation)

  • BComm Honours (Financial Management)

  • BComm Accounting (Honours)

  • BComm Accounting

  • Joubert has occasionally presented lectures to MComm (Taxation) and tax students at University of Pretoria.

  • Publications: Article in Tax Talk