‘I owe nothing to Sars’

FIGHT: LUCKY MONTANA HITS BACK AT TAXMAN WHO SAYS BILL IS R55M >>> Controversial MP rejects claims made at Saturday press brief.

- Ina Opperman

LIES. Former Prasa boss and uMkhonto weSizwe MP Lucky Montana briefs the media at OR Tambo Airport in Joburg yesterday after Sars revealed detailed taxpayer information about his R55m debt.

(Nigel Sibanda)

Lucky Montana, former head of Prasa and now an uMkhonto weSizwe party member of parliament, yesterday fired back at the South African Revenue Service (Sars), saying he does not owe the taxman a cent.

Sars took the unprecedented step of holding a press conference on Saturday, to discuss his tax debt after Montana threatened to lay criminal charges against Sars officials, including commissioner Edward Kieswetter.

Sars warned Montana last week that unless he retracted the "false claims" he made against it, the tax authority would disclose his confidential tax affairs. Montana did not retract his claims and the Sars press conference went ahead on Saturday.