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Coreth Naudé, a senior advocate acting for SARS in a tax inquiry involving controversial businesswoman Shauwn Mkhize, survived an attempt on her life yesterday.

SARS has won the second round of its long-running legal bid to get businessman Christo Wiese and three colleagues to pay R216m it says they owe in taxes, reports Fin24.

SARS will tell the Constitutional Court that it lacks the resources and capacity to inspect all goods containers entering the country, with the tax agency able to inspect only about 2% of imports and forced to rely on the goodwill of taxpayers.

Thulani Dlomo, the elusive spy who allegedly did former President Jacob Zuma's bidding during the height of the state capture years, apparently owes SARS R4.1m, reports News24.

The SARS lost its appeal bid in an decades-long battle against a swimwear model who received a R142m 'gift' from an overseas companion, after the Western Cape High Court ruled against it, Business Day reports.

The Constitutional Court on Friday ruled in Coronation Fund Managers' favour in its almost R800m tax dispute with SARS.

SA's largest apparel businesses and union representatives have welcomed the government clampdown on de minimus rules that have allowed Chinese retailers like Shein and Temu to bring goods into the country at a lower cost than rivals, reports Fin24.

Royal AM founder and businesswoman Shauwn Mkhize could lose a fleet of luxury cars because she owes SARS more than R37m in unpaid taxes.

The Palm Ridge Magistrate’s Court has released Vimpie Manthata, the owner of Instrumentation for Traffic Law Enforcement, and two others on R10 000 bail each in their tax fraud case.

After years of uncertainty, a full Bench of the High Court has ruled Tax Courts are not ‘courts of law’ and non-lawyers, including accountants, can represent taxpayers in any of the country’s Tax Courts.

Public Protector (PP) Kholeka Gcaleka has argued in court papers that neither the provisions of the law nor legal precedent allowed her leeway to challenge SARS’ refusal to give her insight into President Cyril Ramaphosa’s tax records, reports the Mail & Guardian.

MTN has successfully fended off allegations by SARS that it engaged in transfer pricing activities in its international operations, short-changing the tax agency.

SARS is closing in on companies it believes are key players in the gold-smuggling industry – an activity it said is bleeding the fiscus of bllions of rands.

The net is closing in on the man allegedly at the centre of SA’s massive gold and tobacco money laundering machine.

The SARS Illicit Economy unit has scored a victory in the SCA over the interpretation of the Tax Administration Act and warrants for search and seizure. The matter pertains to a raid on precious metals dealer, Bullion Star, in March 2022, after SARS obtained a warrant from the High Court in terms of section 59 of the Tax Administration Act (TAA) 28 of 2011.