LETTER: Corruption on four wheels
It is not tax avoiders that are responsible for the state of SA but politicians who loot from the state
Judge Dennis Davis’s article avoids the real reason for the ubiquity of luxury cars in SA (“Ferraris in Clifton: hints of pernicious tax evasion (https://www.businesslive.co.za/bd/opinion/2021-01-12-dennis-davis-ferraris-in-clifton-hints-of-pernicious-tax-evasion/)”, January 12), which is that corruption and theft are endemic in SA, particularly in the government.
It is only partially true that “corruption has eroded tax morality”, but to say that corruption “must await another occasion” is to expediently avoid the real problem. The forensic accounting the judge refers to has already uncovered billions of rand in theft and corruption by people connected to the ANC government. ..
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