A Cape Town businessman has failed in his bid to stop the SA Revenue Service (Sars) from seizing his assets to settle a tax debt amounting to R354m.
The Supreme Court of Appeal last week ruled that Mark Roy Lifman had no reasonable prospect of success in his attempt to stop Sars from seizing his assets in settlement of the tax debt.
According to Sars, in June 2019 Western Cape High Court judge Elizabeth Baartman also dismissed Lifman’s application for an order to halt the revenue service’s execution orders to seize his assets and auction them off to recover the tax debt. “She found that his objections to the assessments raised by Sars had been filed 'belatedly and opportunistically'. Mr Lifman then turned to the SCA.”
According to Sars commissioner Edward Kieswetter, “this latest protracted legal battle is further evidence that Sars is working hard to regain the capacity it lost over the past few years in dealing with taxpayers who are avoiding their tax obligations through an abuse of the legal system”.
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