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(TIMES OF SWAZILAND)Pastors meet with SRA about intended taxation

Pastors meet with SRA about intended taxation
By LUCKY TSABEDZE on November 18,2011

MATSAPHA - Pastors want to take action against their intended taxation by the Swaziland Revenue Authority (SRA). The men of the cloth had a meeting with SRA officials yesterday at the Jesus Calls Ministries in Matsapha.

The intention of the meeting was to explain issues around the legislation to be used and the processes that will be used by the SRA.

The media was not allowed to attend the meeting. The President of the Swaziland Conference of Churches, Steven Masilela said the meeting with SRA officials was fruitful but the pastors and reverends had misgivings with some aspects of the legislation.

"We will not divulge the course of action that we will take but we are going to take action," said Masilela yesterday.

Masilela said the legislation to be used was drafted in 2004, and they were not consulted.

"When the legislation was drawn we were not consulted, and it is only now that this legislation will be put into use.

"The people from SRA explained where they are coming from with this taxation, and how it will be carried out – we understood what they were saying. But as in all similar cases, there are issues on which wediffer and we will take action," said Masilela last night.

"However, SRA clarified yesterday that they did not announce a date on which our taxation will begin. They said they were misquoted," said Masilela.

Vusi Dlamini of the SRA could not be found for comment last night.

Labels: NEOLIBERALISM, SWAZILAND, TAXATION

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