Tax Advisers - Deloitte

South Africa
David Lermer
PricewaterhouseCoopers
Private Bag X36 PO Box 2799
2 Eglin Road 2175 No 1 Waterhouse Place 7441
Sunninghill, Johannesburg Century City, Cape Town
South Africa South Africa
Tel: (27) 11 797 4097; Tel: (27) 21 529 2364
(27) 82 445 2841 (mobile) Fax: (27) 21 529 3309
Fax: (27) 11 209 4097
Email: david.lermer@za.pwc.com
Website: www.pwc.com/za
David Lermer is the South Africa and Southern Africa Region leader for PwC Global
Tax Services. His career with PwC spans two continents. Originally based in London,
UK, and now based in Johannesburg and Cape Town, David has over 23 years of
professional experience in advising large SA and foreign multinational groups with
respect to their international tax, transfer pricing and exchange control requirements.
He has worked on numerous reorganizations of multinational groups and mergers and
acquisitions, and is heavily involved in representations to the government on tax and
exchange control policy and legislative changes.
David is also the managing partner of the tax practice in the Western Cape Region of
South Africa. He is one of the contributors to the South African section of the firm’s
booklet “International Transfer Pricing”, which is updated annually, and is a founder
member of Afritax, the PwC network of tax and exchange control specialists working in
sub-Saharan Africa. In addition to being a chartered tax adviser (UK), he is a chartered
accountant in both the UK and SA.
PwC Global Tax Services comprises international tax structuring, transfer pricing and
cross-border mergers and acquisitions specialist divisions. These divisions consist of
diverse multidisciplinary teams that combine home-grown and imported specialists
with local and international knowledge, skills and experience, to provide the best
possible methodologies and solutions, appropriately tailored to the local tax and
exchange control landscape of South Africa and/or the sub-Saharan Region.
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