Elle-Sarah Rossato

Elle-Sarah spent 14 years with SARS where she managed an Enforcement Division focusing on High Profile investigations (locally and abroad) and now leads the Tax Controversy & Dispute Resolution function for PwC South Africa where she assists clients on a daily basis to escalate, manage and resolve complicated disputes with SARS.

• Assisted clients to release R220m VAT refund in less than three months (pending seven-month SARS audit) via an urgent High Court application.
• Assisted client in circumventing R6billion add back of deductions by proactively engaging as SARS had not followed due administration process.
• Assisted mining client with a tax dispute in achieving settlement that saved them R36million.

• Corporate Taxes
• Audit Defence
• Dispute Resolution
• MAPs/ADRs
• Litigation
• Controversy Management

• Master Tax Practitioner (SAIT)
• Law Society of South Africa & member of SARIPA

• BCom (Law), 1999;
• LLB, 2001;
• LLM (Corporate Law), 2002;
• MCom(Tax), 2006
• MBA: 2009