SARS Hit Bushiri’s TV Station with R100m Tax Bill
The revenue service applied for a judgment against Bushiri’s channel in the high court in Johannesburg
SARS Hit Bushiri’s TV Station with R100m Tax Bill
According to Sunday World, The South African Revenue Service (SARS) has set its sights on Prophet Shepherd Bushiri’s television channel, Prophetic Channel.
The taxman has slapped Bushiri’s popular Christian channel with a bill of more than R100-million for unpaid taxes.
News that Bushiri’s channel is a tax dodger came to the fore when the revenue service applied for a judgment against Bushiri’s channel in the high court in Johannesburg last week.
Bushiri is currently residing in Malawi while facing extradition charges for R2million fraud case he needs to face in South Africa. The man is yet to respond on the matter as we went to press.
The cleric runs a Christian non-denominational church known as the Enlightened Christian Gathering based in South Africa, which has headquarters in Pretoria, South Africa, with branches in other African countries and around the world.
SARS Hit Bushiri’s TV Station with R100m Tax Bill
Thousands of people are attracted to the church every day and describes the church as a Prophetic Ministry based on the principle that “God cares and loves people and wants to speak directly to them.”
His company, Shepherd Bushiri Investments, has been implicated in several charges of fraud, and money laundering and a number of its assets have been seized by police after a ponzi scheme it ran collapsed and pensioners were defrauded.
The company, based in Sandton near Johannesburg, was also sued in the United States of America and charges of fraud were laid. The firm has interests in forex trading, real estate and in the airline industry. He also owns a television channel, a telecommunications company, various farms, properties, sports academies and universities.
