Christian Wiesener

Associate Director

KPMG in South Africa

Christian Wiesener heads up the transfer pricing practice in Cape Town and Port Elizabeth. Christian also supports the KPMG Team in Namibia regarding transfer pricing matters. He is also a member of KPMG’s Global Transfer Pricing Services Team and the KPMG Transfer Pricing Knowledge Manager for Africa. Christian is the Chairperson of the South African Institute of Chartered Accountant’s Transfer Pricing Subcommittee. Christian was born and grew up in Germany where he practiced as a Tax Lawyer whereafter he relocated to South Africa. He has been a member of KPMG’s Global Transfer Pricing Team in Cape Town for more than 11 years. In 2016 he was on a short term secondment to KPMG UAE where he led KPMG’s Transfer Pricing Practice servicing clients in the Middle East.

Areas of Expertise

  • Transfer Pricing 
  • R&D Tax Incentive
     
  • Attorney (Admitted in Germany)

  • LLM (International Trade)

  • MCom International Tax

  • Master Tax Practitioner (SA)

  • South African Institute of Tax Practitioners

  • Automotive

  • Manufacturing

  • Health Sector

  • Financial services

  • Oil & Gas