BusinessLive reports that SA Revenue Service (Sars) commissioner Edward Kieswetter has announced that the tax agency is reviewing all disciplinary cases since 2014.
“We are reviewing all disciplinary cases … and where we believe that these cases were created or manufactured to support the corrupt intent we obviously have to address that,” he indicated. The review is in line with recommendations by Judge Robert Nugent, who headed a commission of inquiry into governance failures at the institution. The review is also expected to deal with disciplinary action taken against former senior officials accused of being part of the Sars “rogue unit” that was dismantled under former commissioner Tom Moyane. Nugent found in 2018 that the unit had not been established unlawfully, as claimed. Moyane was fired in November, in line with recommendations from Nugent. Kieswetter could not say how many disciplinary cases there had been in the past five years, but said the review was an “intensive piece of work”. “Obviously we can’t assume that all the disciplinary cases were not necessary or they were mismanaged ... Trying to reconstruct intent and reconstruct events is always hard work. The work we need to do is [to] apply our mind, [and] take our time, because there is no upside to getting it wrong,” he indicated.
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