Surendran Pillay is a tax specialist having corporate tax extensive experience in income tax, international taxation, indirect taxation and employees. taxation. He qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 2006 with the Horwath group managing both private sector audits as well as public sector audits on behalf of the Auditor General. He also served as a tax specialist for approximately 7 years with the SARS Large Business Centre auditing JSE Listed companies as well as large parastatal entities. During this time he also served as an IFRS specialist focusing on transactions with asymmetric tax and accounting treatments. He holds a Ph.D in taxation focusing on carbon taxation and has published numerous academic articles in internationally peer reviewed journals such as the International Business Economics Research Journal as well as the Journal of Applied Business Research in the United States.