DA tables SARS Sikhakhane report in Parliament’s Finance Committee
21 April 2015
In today’s Standing Committee on Finance, the DA tabled the controversial Sikhakhane report into the so-called “rogue unit” at SARS, as well as a letter by former SARS spokesperson, Adrian Lackay, addressed to the Chairperson of the Standing Committee on Finance, Yunus Carrim.
Both these documents contain information which contradicts what SARS Commissioner, Tom Moyane, told Parliament when he appeared in Committee last month. It is vital that the discrepancies between the sources be considered.
In the Committee’s last sitting Moyane revealed that the Sikhakhane report will not be released as it is “preliminary and inconclusive”, and will be prejudicial to the ongoing investigations. This is despite the fact that the report is the basis on which senior officials have either been suspended, left the Revenue Service, or have been redeployed to other divisions.
I therefore committed to tabling the report at the Committee’s next sitting, as without Parliament fully engaging and interrogating the report, many crucial questions will remain unanswered, including: