Impasse with auditor-general delays tabling of SARS annual report
At the core of the impasse is their interpretation of the law governing conditions of employment at SARS
A dispute between the South African Revenue Service (SARS) and the auditor-general has meant that SARS was not able to table its annual financial statements in Parliament by Friday as required by the Public Finance Management Act. In a letter to the chairman of Parliament’s standing committee of finance, Yunus Carrim, commissioner Tom Moyane says that SARS and the auditor-general "have reached an impasse concerning the correct interpretation of section 18 (3) of the SARS Act". This section states that the minister of finance must approve the terms and conditions of employment for any class of employees in the management structure of SARS. DA finance spokesman David Maynier said that the impasse "evidently points to a controversy surrounding ministerial approval of terms of conditions for employees in senior management at SARS". In his letter Moyane asks Carrim for a postponement of the scheduled appearance of SARS before the finance committee on Thursday next week because the annual...
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