SARS Latest: Taxman swoops on errant tax payers
SARS is taking strong action against tax evaders and has made an example of a Gqebera businesswoman and a Cape Town Surgeon.
The South African Revenue Service (SARS) has warned taxpayers that it will swoop on those who attempt to evade paying taxes.
And now SARS has made an example of a 45-year-old tax fraudster who has been convicted and sentenced for failing to pay up the taxes she owed, while requiring a Cape Town surgeon who owed taxes to conduct a dozen free operations on state patients.
Ruzaan Botha, the sole director of Botha Investment Holdings was convicted of tax fraud and sentenced in the Gqebera Specialised Commercial Crimes Court this week.
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Dr Nisar Ahmed Moosa, 71, and his company RMC Pharmacy were charged with eight counts of failure to submit Company Income Tax Returns from 2009 and 2017.
As part of the diversion programme, Moosa performed operations on 12 patients at the Rondebosch Medical Centre Private Hospital for free.
The patients were selected from a waiting list of patients at Groote Schuur Hospital for hand-related conditions.
A Cape Town surgeon who for nine years failed to submit his company income tax returns became the saving grace for 12 patients on a waiting list for surgery.
Dr Nisar Ahmed Moosa, 71, and his company RMC Pharmacy were charged with eight counts of failure to submit company income tax returns from 2009 and 2017.