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'SARS should apologise to Zuma'
27/02/2007 20:00 - (SA)
Johannesburg - The SA Revenue Service (SARS) should publicly apologise to the African National Congress deputy president, the Friends of Jacob Zuma Trust in Gauteng demanded on Tuesday.
This follows reports that SARS served Zuma with a summons after he apparently failed to submit his tax return, information which SARS denied leaking to the media.
JZ Trust Gauteng spokesperson Kaizer Mohau said it was not enough for SARS to deny leaking information; they also had to explain how it did leak.
Mohau said if the leak was not from SARS, then the service should indicate with whom it had shared the information besides Zuma's legal team and the courts.
He accused the national prosecuting authority (NPA) of "canvassing other institutions" to ensure Zuma was "in these troubles" until the ANC's conference later this year.
On Sunday, the Sunday Independent reported that SARS had served Zuma with a summons, which allegedly questioned the completeness of Zuma's disclosure of his income and his failure to submit a tax return.
According to the newspaper, Zuma's attorney Michael Hulley collected the summons from the Durban magistrate's court then agreed with SARS to provide the information required in early April.
- SAPA
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