Taxman pursues Dali Tambo over unpaid Sars bill

Receiver of Revenue threatens to attach his assets

- By Ngwako Malatji

Businessman Dali Tambo has become one of the prominent South African icons who have found themselves on the wrong side of the taxman.

Sunday World can exclusively reveal that Tambo, who is the son of the late ANC veterans Oliver and Adelaide Tambo, owes the South African Revenue Service (Sars) more than R1.7-million in unpaid personal income tax.

Among revered public figures who have rubbed the taxman the wrong way are legal eagle Adv Dali Mpofu SC, DJ Sbu and DJ Ganyani Tshabalala to mention but a few.

News that the Sars is demanding the prodigious quantum from Tambo came to light after the receiver of revenue applied for judgment against him in the Johannesburg High Court last week after Tambo failed to settle the debt.