Sars strike

This follows threats by the National Education, Health and Allied Workers Union (Nehawu) and the Public Servants Association (PSA) to shut down branches. The ...

This follows threats by the National Education, Health and Allied Workers Union (Nehawu) and the Public Servants Association (PSA) to shut down branches. This follows threats by Nehawu and the Public Servants Association to shut down branches.

Due to its online facilities, disruption to operations from industrial action was minimal, says the tax authority.

Our website will continually be updated to advise the public on how to engage with SARS to fulfil their required obligations.” In fact, all South Africans, especially millions who are unemployed, suffer the impact of the current economic climate.” SARS also failed to implement the final leg of a three-year wage agreement that was signed in 2019.”

Protesting workers affiliated to workers' unions, PSA and Nehawu, say the lunch-hour picket by SARS employees at the Beitbridge border post in Musina, ...

“Our demand is very clear, if the employer does not come back to us with a better offer we are going to continue with the strike. “The people that are working inside are managers who don’t know they system, actually it is suicidal to government when you put someone who don’t know the system. “They are delaying me too much we don’t know why they are striking, it is too much,” says one driver.

The South African Revenue Service asked taxpayers not to come into its offices amid a national strike.

Customs operations at ports of entry, especially borders, are operational and have been without major interruptions. "Employees do not willingly withhold their labour because that in itself has a financial impact on them under already tough times. The unions are demanding a CPI plus 7% increase, but SARS says that this is unaffordable.

NEHAWU and PSA have rejected an offer of a 1.4% increase. The unions are demanding a 7% increase, among other benefits.

Please include a link back to the original article. We put an invisible pixel in the article so that we can count traffic to republishers. “We hope the strike will convince our employer to give us a better wage, so we can live. Mali said SARS had also offered a once-off cash gratuity of R35,000 for each worker. “It’s a lot of money for workers on a lower salary scale. Then deputy director-general for Corporate Services, Stadi Mngomezulu, came out to sign the memo.

People in a SARS branch. The National Education Health and Allied Workers Union (Nehawu) has reminded the public that several SARS offices will remain closed on ...

Obviously and unfortunately, the public is going to be affected but we are not the only ones that are going to take responsibility for that. There are marches to the National Treasury and the headquarters to the SARS offices. NEHAWU’s president Mike Shingange says, “Over the past weekend, once we started the notice for a strike, SARS came to offer a 1.3% plus some gratuity, to which workers did not agree and that is why the strike is proceeding.

National Education, Health and Allied Workers' Union (Nehawu) and the Public Services Association have downed tools and held a picket in the capital city on ...

Kieswetter said they will, however, continue to monitor developments at their branches. “This very revenue pays the salaries of government employees and provides the necessary resources to provide public goods and services. The important work of Sars has to continue and we will take whatever steps necessary balance the impact of the strike with our responsibility to discharge the important responsibility of providing important services to taxpayers and collecting all tax revenues due."

The South African Revenue Services (Sars) says it experienced minimal disruptions on day 1 of the strike action by employees at its branches nationwide.

“Sars recognises the constitutional right of workers to strike and express themselves within the provisions of the law. Over the next few days, we will continue to monitor developments at our branch offices.” “Sars believes that its offer, to which it has received no response, is the best under the prevailing socio-economic challenges facing the country.