SARS' Tom Moyane suspended with 'immediate effect'

[biometrics]

Cape Town - SARS commissioner Tom Moyane has been suspended with immediate effect on Monday.

"I can confirm that the president has informed Mr Tom Moyane of his suspension with immediate effect,"President Cyril Ramaphosa's spokesperson Khusela Diko told News24.

https://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/sars-tom-moyane-suspended-with-immediate-effect-20180319

This is huge. Tom has been an important part of state capture.

 

[Gordon_R]

https://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/sars-tom-moyane-suspended-with-immediate-effect-20180319

This is huge. Tom has been an important part of state capture.

I did not know he could be suspended, I thought only Parliament could remove him...

Edit: Another article, with more context: https://www.businesslive.co.za/bd/national/2018-03-19-breaking-news-tom-moyane-suspended/

Business Day understands that Ramaphosa asked Moyane to resign on Sunday night, but Moyane said he would not do so citing the upcoming revenue results announcement.

According to sources canvassed by the Business Day, Moyane intended using the results announcement to show his success as commissioner despite the tough economic climate.

Pressure has been building for Moyane to quit. Factors include a R48bn hole in revenue collection and his leadership and handling of the allegations against his second-in-charge, Jonas Makwakwa, which has come under increased scrutiny by Parliament's standing committee on finance.

This comes on the cusp of an announcement by Moody's on Friday on whether SA's investment status would be downgraded.

 

[Vrotappel]

Whoever takes over need to seriously clean house. Moyane surrounded himself with a bunch of useless idiots under the guise of transformation.

SARS concerned about the unrelenting media assault on its image

The restructuring that has seen historically disadvantaged individual, especially African, rise to the highest levels of the organization;

Shocking.

 

[Gordon_R]

Quite a good opinion article in Daily Maverick about the damage done by Moyane at SARS: https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/art...e-of-state-captures-most-loyal-foot-soldiers/

The suspension by President Cyril Ramaphosa of SARS Commissioner Tom Moyane on Monday night brings to an end a 42-months’ long reign of terror which not only saw the haemorrhaging of skilled staff and the relentless persecution of senior executives, including former finance minister Pravin Gordhan, but also the reduction of the once-formidable revenue service to a hollow shell. Under Moyane, one of Jacob Zuma’s most loyal pawns, SARS became a key and vital player of the State Capture project.

 

[dunkyd]

..on full pay no doubt !!
Time for some Pale Males Cyrel.

 

[Priapus]

..on full pay no doubt !!

The DM article mentions an upcoming disciplinary. I hope it doesn't take a year to get to that stage.

 

[R13...]

..on full pay no doubt !!
Time for some Pale Males Cyrel.

You just had to be the one, right?

 

[dunkyd]

You just had to be the one, right?

Yup, no one else has the balls.

 

[dunkyd]

Seems he listened ?

 

[Priapus]

Seems he listened ?

Who? and to what?

 

[dunkyd]

Who? and to what?

Cyrel to me. Appointed Mark Kingon.

 

[Milano]

Cyrel to me. Appointed Mark Kingon.

Well played sir.

 

[Creag]

...

This is huge. Tom has been an important part of state capture.

Definitely. On 702 yesterday they mentioned that there was news -- or rumours -- that CR had asked him to step down on Sunday night. Just had not thought that CR would act this quickly. Good for him.

No idea who the new acting lad is. But quite certain that he will not be an acolyte of the old tyranny.

 

[R13...]

Cyrel to me. Appointed Mark Kingon.

Who is this Cyrel and why is he making appointments on your say so?

 

[Creag]

Mark Kingon appointed as acting SARS commissioner

Mark Kingon has been appointed the new acting commissioner for the South African Revenue Service (SARS), the Treasury announced on Tuesday morning.

This follows the suspension with immediate effect by President Cyril Ramaphosa of current commissioner Tom Moyane on Monday night.

Kingon stepped into the role of second in charge in an acting capacity at SARS last week when chief officer for business and individual taxes Jonas Makwakwa resigned.

Rest of article: Business Day

 

[Creag]

Who is this Cyrel and why is he making appointments on your say so?

He's got the wrong person anyway. It's Cyril with an "i" and not an "e"

 

[Priapus]

Cyrel to me. Appointed Mark Kingon.

It was not CR who appointed Mark, btw.

 

[TEXTILE GUY]

Mark Kingon ..... potentially another implicated person?

Pauw goes on to explain that the tax query from the auditor in Durban caused "a minor consternation" at the SARS head office. The auditor escalated it to SARS audit boss Jonas Makwakwa, who, in turn, reported it to Oupa Magashula, then the commissioner.

The case was transferred to a member of the VIP Tax Unit‚ Mark Kingon — and from there it seems‚ nothing ever happened.

Was Kingon told to investigate and found himself suddenly caught up in a political nightmare? Did he ever finalise the probe? To whom did he present his findings and what did that person do?

Source https://www.businesslive.co.za/bd/opinion/2017-12-21-sars-opens-the-door-for-personal-scrutiny-by-calling-out-jacques-pauw/

 

[ProfA]

Mark Kingon ..... potentially another implicated person?


Source https://www.businesslive.co.za/bd/opinion/2017-12-21-sars-opens-the-door-for-personal-scrutiny-by-calling-out-jacques-pauw/

:crylaugh: :crylaugh: the whole lot are vrot. Even the idiots who think because a "pale male" was appointed things would be better are wrong.

 

[ForceFate]

Yup, no one else has the balls.

Internet anonymity is often mistaken for balls.