A climate of fear, intimidation and harassment, accompanied by purges, characterised the South African Revenue Service restructuring process under Tom Moyane, the Judge Robert Nugent commission was told on Wednesday. The inquiry is looking into governance and administration at SARS and has heard evidence over the past two days about why senior and experienced employees jumped ship during the Moyane era. Former SARS officials told the commission on Wednesday of how their work stations were monitored by cameras and their telephones bugged. The institution’s former chief operations officer Barry Hore described how the SARS modernisation project conducted over less than a decade had significantly improved revenue collection and tax compliance. And how the modernisation process was halted midstream. He also described to the commission his unceremonious exit from the tax agency. Former head of the large business centre Sunita Manik described how the centre she helped build, based on inter...
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