Salary dispute
SA Revenue Service (Sars) commissioner Edward Kieswetter told unions representing its employees that the taxman’s funding deficits of between R2.35 billion and R3.5bn over a three-year period had forced him not to fully increase salaries by 6.2%.
This has emerged in papers filed at the Gauteng High Court, Pretoria, after Sars made a U-turn on its earlier decision to withdraw its appeal of Judge Elizabeth Kubushi’s ruling forcing the tax revenue collector to honour a salary agreement to
