Over the next three years, Sars is short of anywhere between R16 billion and R23 billion, notes Commissioner Edward Kieswetter.
You can also listen to this podcast on iono.fm here. ADVERTISEMENT CONTINUE READING BELOW JIMMY MOYAHA: I’m joined on the line by the commissioner of the South African Revenue Service, Mr Edward Kieswetter. Good evening, Edward. Thank you, as always, for your time. You’ve just wrapped up the [second] Network of Tax Organisations conference, and I believe the conference went well.
So digitalisation and enabling technology, artificial intelligence, is central to the success of our work. There is one last point that I made very clear. Well, I made two points clear at the conference, which are worth repeating. What that means is in times of austerity, governments tend to cut across the board; and cutting costs from a revenue authority, which may have short-term expediency, just creates long-term implications.
In addition to that, though, government has to invest in legacy infrastructure that enables data, economic activity, building economic capacity and creating more jobs. When you do all of that well, you expand your tax base. But in the meantime, there are two things that I am clear about. The one is not only to indiscriminately slow down the expenditure of government, but in fact to improve the efficiency of spending. That’s an important point.
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