BURS fights over P78m tax loss claim

BURS Headquaters PIC: MORERI SEJAKGOMO
BURS Headquaters PIC: MORERI SEJAKGOMO

Botswana Unified Revenue Service (BURS) is fighting to retain the tax amount it has imposed against a local security company, Prevailing Securities.

BURS on Tuesday approached the Court of Appeal (CoA) seeking to overturn High Court Judge, Michael Leburu’s judgement against the revenue services in which it had claimed an amount over P78 million in tax.

In the judgement, Justice Leburu agreed with the director of the company that BURS acted in bad faith by imposing a re-assessment and penalties solely based on the bank statements of the company.

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