Net to close in on jet-set, tax-dodging churches
The South African Council of Churches has no issues with normal application of standard tax laws to bona fide church organisations
26 February 2020 - 18:50
Finance Minister Tito Mboweni has set his sights on religious organisations and leaders who are apparently dodging tax.
“I tweeted about the snake-eating churches. They feed people snakes and grass, and then walk on people and all kinds of crazy things in the name of God ... and then you see them displaying wealth, big cars ... and they are not paying tax ... some of them have private jets all in the name of God,” Mboweni said at a media briefing in parliament, ahead of his budget speech...
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