What taxpayers want from the president’s SARS inquiry
Acting SARS chief Mark Kingon acknowledges that restoring taxpayers’ trust in the revenue service is vital to improving tax morality
SARS acting commissioner Mark Kingon says many of the problems facing the revenue service have been "self-inflicted" and must be fixed with haste, since the fiscus is in desperate need of resources. The South African Revenue Service’s top team has committed itself to rebuild the reputation of the agency to provide an effective, professional, transparent and fair service to taxpayers. Kingon told the recent South African Institute of Business Accountants summit that trust in a tax authority is the most important factor in ensuring compliance, and turning around rampant noncompliance because of the current trust deficit is crucial for SA to succeed. "Tax abuse must be reported quickly, but at the same time SARS must take it seriously and act on it without fear or favour." SARS is the subject of a commission of inquiry into its affairs during the time when Tom Moyane — who has been suspended as commissioner — was at the helm. Tax practitioners say compliant taxpayers have high hopes th...
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