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Kieswetter is fighting state inefficiency from within

February is a busy month for the Commissioner of the South African Revenue Service, Edward Kieswetter. Next week he presents the tax authority’s annual report to Parliament’s Standing Committee on Finance, he is attending the National Budget speech on the 22nd, and he’ll be the keynote speaker at the Personal Finance Raging Bull Awards ceremony at the end of the month.

Kieswetter hit the ground running when he took up the position and walked into a demoralised SARS on May 1, 2019.

In an interview at the time, he said

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