News24 | Lucky Montana offered R5.4m for R55m tax debt: SARS publishes tax info after fraud claim

Former Prasa head Lucky Montana testifies at the Zondo Commission in May 2021 in Johannesburg.

Lucky Montana owes the SA Revenue Service (SARS) R55 133 282.94 and has submitted a compromise offer of R5.4 million to settle his tax debt.

This was revealed at a media briefing on Saturday when the tax-collecting authority made good on its promise to disclose the former Passenger Rail Agency of SA (Prasa) CEO’s normally confidential tax information, to counter the fraud claims he had made against SARS.

According to SARS national spokesperson, Siphithi Sibeko, it was “untenable for Mr Montana to publicly attack SARS and its officials, whilst simultaneously seeking a compromise of a tax debt he accepts”.

This week, Montana charged that he had opened a fraud case against SARS commissioner Edward Kieswetter.

According to him, Kieswetter and SARS officials had doctored a fake court judgment on which a SARS sequestration application was based.

More to follow.

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