Taxman cleans Guma of over P33m
Friday, November 25, 2016
Guma
After a High Court ruling against the Directorate on Corruption and Economic Crime (DCEC) a fortnight ago, Mmegi has it in good authority that the Botswana Unified Revenue Service (BURS) has now instructed Guma to pay all tax owed. According to official documents, although Guma won his battle against the corruption body, he allegedly still owed the tax authority about P33 million.
Mmegi has learnt this week that BURS contacted his bankers, Standard Chartered to transfer the owed millions from Guma’s business account to the tax agency’s.
Whilst many citizens put trust in their leaders that they are tackling one of the worst curses that can befall a country, the public has lost trust after all the cases seemed not to go anywhere.As the saying goes, ‘corruption is a cancer that eats away at the fabric of society’; corruption affects effective governance.Corruption affects delivery of services to the public and also crumbles most systems meant to assist citizens who are very...