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Concretizing the Criminality of Tax Con-Compliance

In the News Today: Demonstrating the strong stance on criminalising tax non-compliance, Sars and the IDAC have joined forces to combat financial crimes, including tax crimes. This alliance will bolster capacity to make non-compliance hard and costly.

The scope of criminal charges for contravention of tax legislation does not stop with taxpayers being non-compliant as individuals. It extends to individual taxpayers controlling non-compliant companies, and which does not stop at the company (individual holding control) merely paying a fine for its tax misdemeanours.

Through various on-going tax fraud cases, Sars, has made evident that “personal liability” encompasses both financial liability as well as criminal liability, for the individual exercising… continue reading HERE.

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