Tshwane cuts off SARS due to unpaid bills

The City of Tshwane has cut off the power to a Pretoria office belonging to the South African Revenue Service over R838,000 in unpaid electricity bills.

In a social media post on Tuesday morning, the city wrote “when you think we are here for a refund… BOOM, your lights are off. #SARS owes us 838 k #TshwaneYaTima.”Tshwane Ya Tima is a municipal revenue-collection programme aimed at recouping some of the city’s mounting losses, partly as a result of unpaid service charges.

The municipality, which has been embroiled in financial woes, and is struggling to pay millions of rands to contractors, suppliers, workers, etc. on time, reactivated the campaign hoping to collect at least a quarter of the R23.3 billion owed to the city by its customers by mid-year. The campaign has previously shown no fear or favour when going after defaulters, having targetted government buildings in the past, as well as cutting offTshwane mayor Cilliers Brink said that the campaign hopes to pounce on over 1,000 arrear consumers, whose debts amount to more than R6 billion and are collectable.

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