Ms Yanga Mputa was appointed as South Africa’s first female Tax Ombud on 1 July 2023. She has more than 20 years of experience in tax. Prior to becoming a Tax Ombud, she was a Chief Director. Legal Tax Design, at National Treasury. In her position at National Treasury, she had played a sterling role in developing the South African annual tax legislation, overseeing the designing and drafting of all tax legislation, including negotiating South African tax treaties. Her work involved working closely with the two finance committees of Parliament to finalise the tax legislation, together with other National Treasury and South African Revenue Service colleagues. She represented South Africa in the Global Forum on Transparency and Exchange of Information for Tax Purposes. She also served as the South African representative on the OECD/G20 Steering Group of the Inclusive Framework on Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS). Ms Mputa is an Admitted Attorney of the High Court of South Africa. She holds a BProc and LLB degrees from the former University of Transkei, an LLM degree from the University of the Witwatersrand, an MCom in International Tax from North-West University (Potchefstroom) and a Postgraduate Diploma in Tax Law from the University of Kwa-Zulu Natal.