The Department of Taxation focusses on educating students who aspire to become tax specialists. The department also caters for aspiring chartered accountants and allied professions at an undergraduate level (BCompt), while also offering service modules for a variety of other bachelor degree programmes offered by the university. We also offer a specialised undergraduate degree in Taxation (BCompt in Taxation), a postgraduate diploma in Taxation, as well as tutored and research-based master and doctoral degrees.
Dr Mphagahlele Ndlovu
Chair of Department: Taxation
On behalf of the entire Department of Taxation team, I would like to take this opportunity to welcome you. We are thrilled that you chose to pursue your studies at Unisa’s Department of Taxation. The department exists, to equip and empower students, to develop capacity for logical analysis, of legal taxation issues, required to operate within public and private sectors. Our qualifications provide ample opportunities for students, to either start their own businesses, register as tax practitioners with SARS or join private and public organizations.
Our qualifications are accredited by the South African Qualification Authority (SAQA) and endorsed by a number of professional bodies. As a future professional in the field of taxation, we implore you, to pledge your commitment to high ethical standards, this will help in maintaining public trust, which is one of the key attributes, expected from a Tax Professional.
For those students, currently pursuing their undergraduate studies with us or any other institution of higher learning, we urge you to consider pursuing post graduate qualifications with us in future. The following post-graduate studies are on offer in the Department of Taxation: Post Graduate Diploma in Taxation (NQF8), Master of Philosophy in Accounting Sciences (Taxation), NQF 9, Doctor of Philosophy in Accounting Sciences (Taxation), NQF 10.
Dr Mphagahlele Ndlovu
Chair of Department: Taxation
