TELITA SNYCKERS: Why isn’t Sars fixing the glaring holes in SA’s tobacco ‘imports’ and ‘exports’?
If we, as outsiders, can gauge this much from a cursory review of the public information, imagine the dots which Sars could connect
19 April 2021 - 07:10
I’m tired of talking about tobacco — it leaves a bad taste in my mouth. It’s my personal Groundhog Day. But I don’t really have a choice: we need to keep talking about the immense holes in the system, until something changes. In recent weeks, you’ll have seen a new rash of articles about poor behaviour from big tobacco.
If it wasn’t British American Tobacco (BAT) being caught with their pants down in Mali; it was allegations that BAT’s export stock is available on the SA market at below the tax rate. And yet, at the same time, BAT was urging the SA Revenue Service to “clean up” the industry...
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