Sars
Encouraging progress: Sars collects an additional R138 billion in revenue
Sars commissioner Edward Kieswetter has Thursday afternoon announced the preliminary outcome of the revenue collected from 1 April 2020 to 31 March 2021.
Former Sars executive Johann van Loggerenberg said Moyane seemed to accept the reports on the alleged rogue elements in Sars as true and failed to launch any internal investigation into the allegations.
South African Revenue Service (Sars) official Vlok Symington said that Sars was modernised and built up after 1994 to become recognised as one of the world’s most efficient tax administrations, but that under Moyane’s tenure of fewer than four years, this efficiency diminished.
Vlok Symington told the state capture inquiry that the attorney was hired by Sars to investigate a grievance that he laid against then-Commissioner Tom Moyane’s bodyguard following the incident.
On Wednesday, he told the commission that the Hawks held him hostage in a boardroom at the revenue service and then snatched a printed email from him.
Vlok Symington said he advised Pravin Gordhan in a memorandum that it was lawful for Ivan Pillay to take early retirement and return to the revenue service
Athol Williams said that he was unemployed and had become unemployable since he blew the whistle on the hollowing out of the South African Revenue Service (Sars).
The former partner at Bain Capital was responding to Tom Moyane's affidavit in which he said that he never met Atholl Williams but believed that he was on a mission to implicate his former employer in alleged wrongdoing.
Former Bain partner, Atholl Williams, has presented statements from various employees who said that they were uncomfortable with the work they were doing at the South African Revenue Services ( Sars).
He took the stand on Tuesday after Bain SA made an application to release an affidavit responding to his testimony.
Gordhan was cross-examined by Tom Moyane's lawyer advocate Dali Mpofu at the state capture commission on Tuesday.
Tom Moyane's advocate Dali Mpofu told Pravin Gordhan's advocate Michelle Le Roux to "shut up" as he tried to make an objection at the State Capture Commission of inquiry on 23 March 2021.
Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan returns to the state capture inquiry where he is being cross-examined by former Sars commissioner Tom Moyane's lawyers on matters related to the SA Revenue Service (Sars).
Bain, the US-based management consultancy firm, was appointed by former Sars Commissioner Tom Moyane to develop an operating model but is accused of playing a major role in the affairs of the Sars during the years of state capture.
Neliswa Tantsi was apprehended on Wednesday by the Hawks in the East London area.
Commissioner Kieswetter said that despite there not being substantive tax hikes, there was still wiggle room to improve the efficiency of collection.
While we will have the highest tax shortfall ever on record - mostly due to the COVID-19 pandemic - government has a few plans to ensure it acquires as much income as possible.
The suspicious shipment - destined for Malaysia - was noticed during searches conducted by the customs unit.
This has dealt another blow to the beleaguered Public Protector.