Head of Department
Department of Accounting Sciences
University of Pretoria
South Africa
She did her DCom in Financial Management Sciences with specialisation in Tax from South Africa. She is currently the HOD of the Department of Accounting Sciences in University of Pretoria. Professor Stiglingh is a highly regarded Taxation academic. As editor of “Silke on South African Income Tax”, she is a well-known expert on South African tax law. Since 1994, she has taught Taxation at various levels. Professor Stiglingh also regularly publishes in peer-reviewed international and local journals. Her research interests include service delivery by tax collection authorities, implications of tax legislation and the financial reporting of taxation. Her research has taken her to conferences across the globe, including Austria, France, Italy, Turkey and the United States. In 2010, she won the Deneys Reitz award for the best doctoral thesis in Taxation. She has been the head of the Department of Taxation at the University of Pretoria since 2004.
Her main focus is on Tax like tax revenue, Tax burden, tax complaints.