Separating the SA Revenue Service (Sars) from politics will strengthen governance at the tax agency, says former Sars commissioner Oupa Magashula. Magashule says that to boost the independence of the Sars commissioner, he or she should resign their political party membership and desist from attending political gatherings. In an affidavit to the Sars commission of inquiry chaired by retired judge Robert Nugent, he recommends that the commissioner should also not have a relationship with the president. The Nugent inquiry, which is tasked with making recommendations to President Cyril Ramaphosa on how to strengthen governance at Sars, had asked Magashula for recommendations on how to do so. This comes as the inquiry heard that suspended Sars commissioner Tom Moyane, who was a long-standing close ally of former president Jacob Zuma, had asked consultancy Bain & Co for a presentation on Sars a year before he was even appointed to the post. It also emerged that Bain’s managing partner, Vi...
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