At a pre-budget speech press briefing on Wednesday, Mboweni said the government could no longer afford to sit back and watch controversial"men of the cloth" flaunt their wealth while they found creative ways of evading tax.
“Have you seen them? They feed people snake and grass and they walk on people, they do all kinds of crazy things in the name of God,“And then you see them displaying wealth; the big cars, the doors that open both sides and all kinds of things - and they are not paying tax, these fellows. Some of them have private jets, and so on all in the name of God,” said Mboweni, speaking to journalists before delivering his budget speech in parliament on Wednesday afternoon.
Mboweni said he had mandated tax experts within the National Treasury and the tax service Sars to tighten up the country's laws governing the tax affairs of religious public-benefit organisations or churches.Mboweni said churches were mushrooming everywhere; the congregants were paying contributions but the church leaders did not pay taxes. He warned that this kind of lawlessness would bring the country down.
“I know I am going to get into trouble about this. The president will probably call me into his office and say, 'what did you say about that thing', and then I will tweet about it later,” he joked.
Thanks, Minister TT;it's high time those corrupt so called men of the cloth pay their taxes like everybody else together with the Soweto residents who wants to treat electricity provision as manna from Kimberly Big Hole!
That's progress.
TheThin41314045 That's leadership!
maggsnaidu I’m yet to here a fund manager condemning today’s speech. I’m not sure what to make of this but it makes one uncomfortable.
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