Ernest Mazansky
Phone +27 11 535 8448
Email emazansky@werksmans.com
Location Johannesburg
Name / Surname Ernest Mazansky

Ernest Mazansky

Director

Ernest Mazansky is a Director of Werksmans Tax Proprietary Limited in the Tax & Exchange Control practice area. He specialises in corporate tax planning; restructuring of corporate entities; share incentive schemes; dispute resolution/tax controversy; offshore structures & financing; exchange control; VAT; estate planning; and wills & trusts (local and international). Ernest is past chairman of the Taxation Committee of the South African Institute of Chartered Accountants; and also of the Institute’s Exchange Control Committee. He is a former South African correspondent for the Bulletin for International Taxation, published by the IBFD and an editor of The Taxpayer published by Juta's.

Years of Experience: 48 years

  • Tax

Commercial

  • Tax & Exchange Control

  • Advised Transaction Capital Limited on its recent unbundling of We Buy Cars Limited
  • Advised Ntsimbintle Holdings Pty Ltd in its sale of its manganese interests to Exxaro Ltd

  • Higher Diploma in Tax Law, University of the Witwatersrand, 1985
  • Admitted as a Chartered Accountant, 1977
  • BAcc, University of the Witwatersrand, 1977
  • BCom, University of the Witwatersrand, 1973

  • Listed in Hall of Fame by the Legal 500 | 2024 | Tax
  • Ranked by ITR World Tax as a Notable Practitioner | 2023, 2025
  • Recognised as a Tax Expert | Tax Expert Guide 2022
  • Ranked lawyer (Band 1) by Chambers Global | 2019 – 2022, 2024 – 2026 | Tax
  • Ranked as a leading practitioner by Legal 500 | 2019 | Tax
  • Ranked as a leading lawyer by IFLR 1000 | 2014, 2017 | Petroleum Economist Energy & Infrastructure Guide
  • Past Chairman of the Taxation Committee of the South African Institute of Chartered Accountants and also of the Institute’s Exchange Control Committee
  • Former South African correspondent of the Bulletin for International Taxation published by the International Bureau of Fiscal Documentation (IBFD)
  • Listed in the Tax Directors Handbook (2008)
  • Nominated by in-house counsel and peers as a pre-eminent practitioner in Euromoney's Guide to the World's Leading Tax Advisers (2008)

Authorships

  • Ernest is the former South African correspondent of the Bulletin for International Taxation and is the author of the South African chapter of The Delicate Balance – Tax Discretion and the Rule of Law, both published by the International Bureau of Fiscal Documentation (IBFD).
  • He is also co-author of the chapter on trusts in Silke on International Tax.
  • Ernest is an editor of The Taxpayer journal.
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