Taxman shows Moja Love's reality TV star Thato Mokhothu who's the boss

The taxman has shown Moja Love's Boss Lady reality TV show star Thato Mokhothu, who's the boss when it slapped her with a tax bill of more than R1-million.

- By Ngwako Malatji

Sunday World can exclusively reveal that Mokhothu has been locked in a behind-the-scenes dispute with the South African Revenue Service (Sars) over her failure to pay her personal income tax.

Mokhothu's squabble with Sars came to the fore after the latter applied for judgment against her in the Johannesburg High Court about a fortnight ago.

In the application, which we have seen, Sars stated that Mokhothu, who is the managing director of RTT Construction & Consulting Engineering, initially owed it more than R850000, but the amount increased to more than R1.1-million after the debt incurred about R285000 in interest.

Before applying for the default judgment against Mokhothu, whose company reportedly raked in more than R100-million worth of tenders, Sars wrote her a final letter of demand on March 3, advising her to pay the debt or enter into a payment plan with the receiver of revenue to settle it.

At that time, the debt was just over R20000 less than what the taxman is demanding in the application for judgment.