EDITORIAL | 'Justice for Babita' should be justice for all whistle-blowers
SA has a sad legacy of not giving whistle-blowers enough support, and very few are willing to come forward as a result
Source: timeslive.co.za
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OPINION | Whistleblowers and tax evasion: what South Africa needs to add to its toolbox
By exposing corruption, whistleblowers play a key role in ensuring that those who evade end up paying their fair share of taxes, writes Carika Fritz.
Source: news24.com
Whistleblowers and tax evasion: what South Africa needs to add to its toolbox
The importance of whistleblowers was highlighted again recently in South Africa. In one of the reports released by Judge Raymond Zondo, who has headed up a commission of inquiry into State capture, he recommended that whistleblowers should be protected. He also recommended that they should be given an incentive to make disclosures – a monetary reward based on a percentage of the proceeds recovered on the strength of such information. Academics, myself among them, have called for similar treatment of tax whistleblowers.
Source: polity.org.za
Whistleblowers and tax evasion: what South Africa needs to add to its toolbox
South Africa should start offering whistleblowers monetary compensation in cases where they help identify tax evaders.
Source: theconversation.com