BURS goes after tax-dodging landlords

For the upcoming 2020-2021 financial year, the taxman has set a target of P44.4 billion and the agency has ramped up tax collections across previously overlooked lines. In his budget speech last month in which he unveiled a P5.2 billion deficit for 2020-2021, Finance Minister, Thapelo Matsheka said rather than raise taxes, the focus would be on enhancing collections to ensure that everyone who must pay, pays. The campaign has already seen the BURS seize thousands of vehicles from second-hand dealerships suspected of cheating the taxman of billions of pula over the years by undervaluing their imports.

This week, BusinessWeek established that BURS officials are already questioning tenants in multi-residential compounds in Mogoditshane and Tlokweng digging up information about the landlords.