So far, the new SARS boss has wasted no time - here's how he can get the bad guys behind bars | brucebusiness
Kieswetter may want to take lessons from a groundbreaking 90-year old American case as he sets about restoring faith in SARS.The new SARS Commissioner Edward Kieswetter has wasted no time in getting to work on turning around the moribund tax collection agency.
When Gordhan was kicked upstairs to become finance minister, Kieswetter should have replaced him as commissioner. After all, he founded and lead the successful large business unit at SARS - which was dismantled under Moyane. It might well take a leaf out of the book of US law enforcement officials of the 1930s. When they were faced with the murderous reign of Al Capone, they nailed him on tax violations, rather than the more complex charges they might otherwise have pursued.
So rather than waste time and resources on nailing him on a wide range of criminal exploits, they simply honed in on his tax affairs. Federal authorities didn’t much care on which charges Capone was convicted, as long as they could get him behind bars.Kieswetter needs some old fashioned sleuthing.
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