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Solidarity launches tax protest campaign, including court application to place SAA under business rescue

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SolidarityANA reports that the Solidarity NetWork will this week kick off a comprehensive and lawful tax protest campaign, which will include a court application to place SA Airways (SAA) under business rescue.  

The trade union said in a statement on Sunday that the protest would include at least six legal actions against state enterprises and tax plunderers.  “It is time that taxpayers turn to active and lawful tax protest.  South Africa must discover the power of tax activism.  We’ve already had a taste of it with the e-toll protest.  Tax protest does not have to include the withholding of tax.  Taxpayers can unite across traditional barriers, making use of legal instruments to call the state and tax plunderers to account,” Solidarity’s chief operating officer Dirk Hermann commented.  The union said it would this week serve urgent court papers on arms manufacturer Denel to force it to pay over the unemployment insurance and tax contributions it had deducted from employees.  It has also started a process in terms of section 165 of the Companies Act to have mismanagement and corruption perpetrated by former Denel directors investigated with a view to their possible prosecution.  A similar section 165 process will be followed in collaboration with business organisation Sakeliga in respect of Eskom, which may have major implications for former Eskom directors such as Brian Molefe.  Similar applications against other directors at other state-owned enterprises might follow, Solidarity indicated.

  • Read the full original of the report on the above at The Citizen
  • Read too, Tax plunderers beware, warns Solidarity on looming tax protest, at Fin24
  • Read Solidarity’s press statement on the campaign at Politicsweb


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