Tax & Accounting Specialist
Patience Lupahla
Patience Lupahla is a finance and tax professional with experience in financial reporting, taxation, audit, management accounting and control remediation. She holds B.Com Accounting Honours and the CA(SA) designation, and completed audit training at SizweNtsalubaGobodo before working across private and public-sector organisations.
Accounting and tax background applied to SARS matters
Patience completed audit training at SizweNtsalubaGobodo and worked with private and public-sector organisations. Her work has included preparing financial statements and supporting schedules, reconciling financial data, evaluating expenditure and procurement controls, coordinating audit evidence and implementing corrective actions after audit findings.
An evidence-led approach to tax and accounting records
Patience's accounting and tax background supports an evidence-led approach: identify the exact issue, check reconciliations and records, map the relevant reporting or tax periods, and provide a structured foundation for the correctly scoped tax-compliance or dispute work.
Tax and accounting records
Patience understands the connection between accurate ledger records, tax return positions, supporting reconciliations and credible submissions to regulators. This is particularly valuable when a business faces outstanding returns, inconsistent SARS records or requests for supporting documents.
Financial reporting and reconciliation
She has prepared audit-support schedules, management accounts, cash-flow projections, budget-versus-actual reporting and documentation supporting expenditure and accruals.
Audit and compliance readiness
Her work has included addressing prior-year audit findings, improving policies and controls and organising evidence for audit review, including engagements in municipal and other regulated settings.
Financial governance
She has worked on expenditure authorisations, supplier and contract registers, procurement control reviews and the corrective use of management information.
Career background
Her career includes assignments involving SizweNtsalubaGobodo, Transnet National Ports Authority, the University of Johannesburg and various South African municipalities, together with experience as a finance manager and municipal consultant. These are historical personal career examples, not Tax Relief SA clients.
Qualifications and professional standing
Patience's professional background spans audit training, financial reporting, taxation and control remediation.
B.Com Accounting Honours
An honours degree in accounting, providing the foundation for financial reporting, taxation and audit-support work.
CA(SA) — Chartered Accountant (SA)
Chartered Accountant (SA), with current SAICA membership.
Tax-practitioner status
A CA(SA) designation does not by itself confirm an active SARS tax-practitioner registration; statutory submissions are reviewed and signed by the authorised practitioner responsible for that matter.
Audit training — SizweNtsalubaGobodo
Completed audit training at SizweNtsalubaGobodo, with subsequent work across private and public-sector organisations.
A structured foundation for the correctly scoped work
Patience's contribution is to establish a reliable accounting and reconciliation foundation. Tax-practitioner determinations, legal representation and statutory audit services remain the responsibility of the correctly qualified and authorised people.
Scope boundary: Tax Relief SA is an independent SARS assistance service and is not a law firm or a registered auditing practice. Patience's accounting and tax background supports evidence preparation and reconciliation work; it does not by itself constitute a statutory audit opinion, legal representation or a SARS tax-practitioner determination.
Questions about Patience
Is Patience a registered tax practitioner?
A CA(SA) designation does not by itself confirm an active SARS tax-practitioner registration; statutory submissions are reviewed and signed by the authorised practitioner responsible for that matter.
Is Patience a Chartered Accountant?
Yes. Patience is a Chartered Accountant (SA) with current SAICA membership.
How does Patience's work fit a SARS matter?
Her accounting and tax background supports an evidence-led approach: identify the exact issue, check reconciliations and records, map the relevant reporting or tax periods, and provide a structured foundation for the correctly scoped tax-compliance or dispute work. This connects to company tax returns and SARS verification assistance.
Are the organisations named on this page Tax Relief SA clients?
No. The named organisations are historical personal career examples. They are not representations that those entities are current Tax Relief SA clients or that they endorse Tax Relief SA.
Where this connects
Discuss a tax or accounting matter
A confidential assessment is the first step. Our team will advise what is needed to begin. A written scope and fee quotation are agreed before any detailed work starts.