Legal Articles and Guides
Door opens for SARS to track offshore assets
SARS will soon have unprecedented access to South Africans’ offshore financial information, reports the Saturday Star.
Attorney fined for failing to submit returns
A Cape Town attorney has been fined R108 000 or 18 years’ direct imprisonment after failing to submit income tax and payroll-related returns for more than two decades.
Zuma tax ruling a victory for accountability
The Information Regulator has ordered SARS to release former President Jacob Zuma’s tax records and has eviscerated the agency for its ‘soft approach’ to Zuma’s tax non-compliance.
SARS welcomes Sasfin damages claim judgment
The SARS has welcomed a High Court judgment about its R5.3bn damages claim against Sasfin Bank, saying the ruling marks ‘significant progress’ in holding financial institutions accountable for facilitating illicit financial flows.
SARS to battle Prasa CEO unopposed
SARS will take on former Prasa CEO Lucky Montana unopposed in the Gauteng High Court (Pretoria), in a legal bid to attach his assets over a multimillion-rand tax debt.
SARS secures R155m provisional sequestration order
The SARS has secured a provisional sequestration order against a taxpayer for R155m for tax non-compliance. The order allows SARS to seize assets of an individual taxpayer to cover their tax bill.
SARS targeted Mashatile-linked firm
SARS has handed a company with deep ties to Deputy President Paul Mashatile’s sons with a R3m tax bill for unpaid VAT and penalties – costs that it owes the taxman on income from a multi-million-rand government tender.
SARS wins sequestration order against tobacco importer
SARS has won an order provisionally placing the assets of a tobacco importer under court control after it accused him of owing R188m in income and customs tax debts, reports News24.
Van Loggerenberg back at SARS
Top investigator Johann van Loggerenberg is among senior former officials who have returned to SARS, according to two people with knowledge of the matter.
MaMkhize’s assets for auction to settle SARS debt
Of the hundreds of luxury designer bags seized from controversial businesswoman Shauwn Mkhize, only 23 were authenticated and cleared for auction to recover outstanding debts to SARS.
Montana planning to sue SARS for R50m
Lucky Montana, the former Prasa boss who is now on the MKP benches in Parliament, is planning to sue SARS for R50m in damages.
SARS confirms Montana offers R5.4m ‘compromise’
The SARS on Saturday revealed that former Prasa CEO Lucky Montana offered it R5.4m as a compromise offer to settle the R55m it says he owes it.
SARS sues Sasfin for lost tax revenue
A successful SARS R4.8bn lawsuit claim against Sasfin Bank would expose SA banks to a flood of liability for clients’ transgressions, the lender’s Advocate Wim Trengove SC, argued in court yesterday.
SARS threatens to disclose Montana’s confidential information
In a rare move, SARS has threatened to disclose the normally confidential tax information of Lucky Montana to disprove the fraud allegations he has made against the tax agency, reports News24.
SARS raids Royal AM FC facility
Players from Royal AM FC, the football team owned by Shauwn Mkhize, watched in despair as trucks, brought by the taxman, seized goods and vehicles at a training facility outside Pietermaritzburg yesterday.
