SARS Moves To Block Public Protector From Accessing Jacob Zuma’s Tax Records

Riyaz Patel

SARS has launched an urgent court bid to prevent the Public Protector from accessing Jacob Zuma’s tax records as part of her investigation into claims that a KZN businessman ‘paid’ the former president as he began his presidential term.

Busisiwe Mkhwebane issued a subpoena to obtain Zuma’s tax information in October, Business Day reported.

The Public Protector in probing allegations that Zuma had received undeclared payments from a security company during (in at least) the first four months of his presidential term.

The claim first surfaced in Jacques Pauw’s book ‘The President’s Keepers,’ which alleged that Zuma received R1-million a month from Royal Security, a company owned by businessman Roy Moodley.

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