Director: Policy Costings

Overview

Director of Policy Costings at National Treasury in Pretoria, requiring a degree in Economics or related field and five years of senior managerial experience in tax policy research.

Requirements

• A Grade 12 is required coupled with a minimum Bachelor’s degree (equivalent to NQF level 7) in Economics or Statistics or Mathematics or Accounting or Taxation. 5 years of experience at a middle/senior managerial level obtained in tax or public policy research and tax policy analysis and formulation.
• Knowledge and experience of the broader policy framework on tax revenue and related processes required to formulate the fiscal framework for the annual Budget and Medium-Term Budget Policy Statement.
• Successful completion of the Nyukela Public Service Senior Management Leadership Programme as endorsed by the National School of Government available as an online course on https://www.thensg.gov.za/training-course/sms-pre-entry-programme/, prior to finalisation of an appointment.

Duties

• Develop microsimulation models for corporate income tax (CIT), personal income tax (PIT) and value-added tax (VAT): Develop excel-based micro simulation models to simulate policy options for Personal Income Tax, Corporate Income Tax, and Value Added Tax.
• Perform regular updating of the micro-simulation models.
• Use microsimulation 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, including sourcing relevant data and implementing methodologies to enable the quantitative and qualitative review of tax incentives.
• Engage the South African Revenue Service (SARS) to source and ensure the accuracy and integrity of tax administrative data enabling the review of tax incentives.
• Produce descriptive statistics of the tax administrative to enable policy analysis and review.
• Publish statistical tables and graphs for tax incentive review documents.
• 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.
• Conduct research on international tax expenditure reporting and methodological best practices to enhance South Africa’s current reporting.
• Determine data requirements on tax expenditures in conjunction with SARS.
• Publish 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: Provide analysis to estimate the revenue implications of specific tax proposals.
• Justify and motivate the quantification of economic impacts of various taxes.
• Produce analytical notes and presentations to illustrate the revenue and economic implications of different tax proposals.

How to apply

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Notes

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