Sars
Sars unable to pay wage increases due to budget shortfall, Kieswetter tells MPs
South African Revenue Service (Sars) commissioner Edward Kieswetter was briefing Parliament’s standing committee on finance on Wednesday.
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Kieswetter: Sars gunning for state capture beneficiaries who didn’t pay tax
Sars Commissioner Edward Kieswetter told Parliament’s Standing Committee on Public Accounts (Scopa) that the revenue service was working on seven state capture-related projects and had already handed over 27 criminal cases to the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA).
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Kieswetter: I will not tolerate any political interference at Sars
South African Revenue Service (Sars) commissioner Edward Kieswetter told Parliament’s Standing Committee on Finance that since taking over the reins at the revenue service, he has not experienced any political interference, and neither would he tolerate any.
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High Court hears EFF, PP's bid for leave to appeal Sars 'rogue unit' matter
Last year, the High Court set aside the Public Protector’s report, which found against the formation of the unit after Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan applied that it be reviewed.
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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.
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Van Loggerenberg tells Zondo Inquiry Moyane left Sars officials to the wolves
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.
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Sars under Tom Moyane was a nightmare, Symington tells Zondo Inquiry
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.
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Attorney pressured to change report on Sars hostage incident, says Symington
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.
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WATCH LIVE: Vlok Symington continues testifying at state capture commission
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.
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Sars' Vlok Symington tells Zondo Inquiry about being held hostage by Hawks
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
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Williams appeals to Zondo Inquiry to provide protection for whistleblowers
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).
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Athol Williams agrees with Moyane assessment of him being angry & disgruntled
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.
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'Our work at Sars was effectively a sham,' Williams tells Zondo Inquiry
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).
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WATCH LIVE: Athol Williams continues testimony at state capture commission
He took the stand on Tuesday after Bain SA made an application to release an affidavit responding to his testimony.
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Gordhan adamant he never set up a rogue unit within Sars
Gordhan was cross-examined by Tom Moyane's lawyer advocate Dali Mpofu at the state capture commission on Tuesday.
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Mpofu to Gordhan's advocate: 'Ms Le Roux must shut up when I'm speaking.'
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.
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WATCH LIVE: Pravin Gordhan returns to state capture inquiry
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).
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Bain never transparent with Nugent Commission, Zondo Inquiry told
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.
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East London woman arrested for evading tax worth R1.5m
Neliswa Tantsi was apprehended on Wednesday by the Hawks in the East London area.
