It sends a warning shot to other companies that Sars, under pressure to bring in enough tax to keep the badly leaking vessel that is South Africa running, is going to be taking a microscope to their “offshore businesses”.
It’s what you might describe as a bad day: opening a message from your lawyer and discovering that not only isn’t your tax all sorted as you’d thought, but that your bill may actually be as much as R900m.
Yet on February 7, this is what happened to South Africa’s third-largest investment firm, which manages R602bn on behalf of thousands of clients — many of them pensioners — and does business under the motto “trust is earned”...A subscription helps you enjoy the best of our business content every day along with benefits such as articles from our international business news partners; ProfileData financial data; and digital access to the Sunday Times and TimesLive Premium.
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