Former Pas­sen­ger Rail Agency of SA (Prasa) CEO Lucky Montana wants to block the SARS from adding his wife, Sefora Dever­eaux Let­soalo, as a co-defend­ant in his mul­ti­mil­lion-rand tax debt legal battle, reports Business Day.

SARS filed a join­der applic­a­tion last month in the Gauteng High Court (Pre­toria) to add Let­soalo as the second respond­ent in the tax law­suit against Montana. The tax debt was ini­tially R44m but has accu­mu­lated to R55m.

SARS says it needs to join Let­soalo and can­not pro­ceed with the court case for the attach­ment of Montana’s assets without the join­der.

SARS filed the applic­a­tion after Montana, in an answer­ing affi­davit that was 18 months late, argued pro­ced­ural defects in the sequest­ra­tion applic­a­tion because his wife was not joined in the applic­a­tion.

SARS legal debt col­lector Ilse Pires argues SARS is not to blame because the sequest­ra­tion applic­a­tion was filed in May 2023. Montana mar­ried in Novem­ber 2023 and dis­closed the fact only in Novem­ber 2025 in his answer­ing affi­davit.

‘Mr Montana only got mar­ried, in com­munity of prop­erty, to Mrs Let­soalo after the sequest­ra­tion applic­a­tion being launched. SARS accord­ingly now asks for the joint estate to be sequest­rated,’ Pires argues.

Pires con­tends that if SARS had been informed earlier of the mar­riage, Let­soalo would have been joined. Let­soalo has a house in Johan­nes­burg and a car.

SARS, in its main applic­a­tion, wants Montana to be declared insolv­ent. This would limit his chances of being hired in pub­lic office.

Montana filed court papers last week indic­at­ing his inten­tion to oppose the join­der applic­a­tion. He has not yet filed an affi­davit. 

The sequest­ra­tion is based on an audit of Montana’s tax affairs in 2009-19. He con­tends his debt to SARS was about R9.35m.

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