On Thursday, The Huffington Post SA reported that Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan ordered an investigation into the running of the South African Revenue Service (Sars). This was after Gordhan said in a written response to parliamentary questions that he could not verify that responses from Sars were accurate.
The Davis Tax Committee, a body then established by Gordhan, will be investigating how Sars operates, if its investigating capabilities are up to scratch and how it has dealt with previous recommendations from the Committee.
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The HuffPost SA's deputy editor Pieter Du Toit offers an explains what happened, why we should care about this and what's next.