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SARS owes taxpayers R1,7bn

THE South African Revenue Service owes value added taxpayers R1,7billion in refunds that have run beyond the three-weekdeadline.

Disclosing this in a written reply to a question in Parliament yesterday, Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan blamed "verification procedures" which are taking longer than 21 working days to finalise.

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