📨ConCourt orders Sars to reconsider application by investigative media houses 🗞️ to access Zuma’s tax records🔒💸 TheCitizenNews JacobZuma Catch up here⬇️
Sars must provide the publications with the tax records for the periods between 2010 and 2018.
Judge Norman Davis had also ruled sections 67 and 69 of the Tax Administration Act and sections 35 and 46 of the Promotion of Access to Information Act were unconstitutional.On Tuesday, the ConCourt confirmed the high court ruling in declaring the Acts invalid as the laws did not permit access to tax records in the public interest.
The apex court further referred the application for access to Zuma’s tax records back to Sars for reconsideration.“Parliament has been given 24 months to rectify PAIA and the Tax Administration Act. The court read into the provision a public interest override for access to tax records until Parliament amends the laws,”The Constitutional Court has referred the application for access to President Zuma’s tax records back to SARS for reconsideration.
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