Finance Committee must probe the handling of the investigation into ‘suspicious and unusual payments’ at SARS
19 September 2016
SARS Commissioner, Tom Moyane, has assured the revenue service that all reasonable steps were followed when suspending SARS Chief Officer of Business and Individual Tax, Jonas Makwakwa, who allegedly received “suspicious and unusual payments” in the amount of R1.2 million between 2010 and 2016.
However, in a statement released last week he seems to concede there was a delay in dealing with the matter, and blames the delay on the Financial Intelligence Centre (FIC). The FIC, according to Tom Moyane, refused to cooperate with SARS.
Whatever the case, there are now a number of burning questions about the handling of the investigation into the “suspicious and unusual payments”, which need to be probed in Parliament.
On the FIC, we need to know: