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HILARY JOFFE: Commission to spend next four months picking apart Tom Moyane’s mess at SARS
The Nugent commission will also recommend how SARS can resume collecting tax revenue effectively, efficiently, fairly
President Cyril Ramaphosa has at last appointed the commission of inquiry into the South African Revenue Service (SARS), picking highly regarded retired Supreme Court judge Robert Nugent to chair it, and publishing the inquiry’s terms of reference. Nugent and his team, who have to deliver an interim report within four months and a final report by the end of November, might want to challenge Judge Raymond Zondo and his team over at the commission of inquiry into state capture to deliver speedily too. Essentially, the Nugent commission will have to probe what went wrong at SARS during the three-and-half-year tenure of now suspended commissioner Tom Moyane. It will also have to recommend how to fix it, so the tax authority can again start collecting tax revenue effectively, efficiently, fairly and on a scale that enables government to get the fiscal deficit under control without endlessly hiking tax rates and cutting spending.The state-capture and corruption part of the commission’s pr...
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