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Dodging tax big time? Sars is coming for you

IF YOU live in a R20million mansion in Sandton, own a holiday home on the coast and drive an Italian sports car but declare an annual taxable income of the average working-class Joe, the SA Revenue Service (Sars) has you in its sights. In fact, Sars is more intent on collecting what it is rightfully theirs from wealthy tax dodgers than imposing the dreaded “wealth tax” on South Africans.

This is the view of Judge Dennis Davis, who headed the Davis Tax Committee and who has joined Sars more

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