Pretoria, 11 January 2019 – Today, the OECD, the South African Revenue Service (SARS) and National Treasury of South Africa (National Treasury) signed a Memorandum of Co-operation (MoC), agreeing to continue to work together in the area of taxation. The MoC is in place until December 2023.

The three parties have a long history of collaboration and the MoC provides for the continuation of such co-operation towards the achievement of the common objective of promoting fair and efficient tax systems and administrations, strengthening and modernising international taxation areas through the sharing of experiences between SARS, National Treasury and OECD member countries.

The MoC was signed in Pretoria, South Africa, by Mr. Ben Dickinson, Head of the OECD Global Relations and Development Division at the Centre for Tax Policy and Administration, Mr. Mark Kingon, Acting Commissioner of SARS, and Stadi Mngomezulu, Acting Director-General of National Treasury (signing on behalf of Dondo Mogajane, Director-General of National Treasury).

During the signing ceremony Ben Dickinson said:  “I am delighted we are strengthening our partnership with SARS and National Treasury. We have together delivered successful training events as part of the Global Relations Programmes in the past years and I look forward to expanding our collaboration to blended learning and e-learning in 2019.

“It is through cooperative ventures such as the one we have entered into with the OECD that we can enhance our efforts to collect taxes and strengthen our democracy,” said  Dondo Mogajane, Director-General of National Treasury.

Mark Kingon commented that the OECD–South African collaboration in the areas of Tax Policy and Administration over the past years have been immensely beneficial for all parties involved.

“Extending this by a further five years is therefore the natural thing to do. I am pleased for the continuation of the structured relationship that the MoC with the OECD will provide SARS with, particularly in focusing on a whole-of-government approach to tax administration, as well as further honing the skills of our officials in international taxation”.

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National Treasury, SARS and the OECD today signed a Memorandum of Co-operation (MoC), agreeing to continue to work together in the area of taxation. The MoC is in place until December 2023. Signing the MoC at the SARS head office in Pretoria are, from the  left, Stadi Mngomezulu, Acting Director-General of National Treasury (signing on behalf of Dondo Mogajane, Director-General of National Treasury); Mark Kingon, Acting Commissioner of SARS and Ben Dickinson, Head of the OECD Global Relations and Development Division at the Centre for Tax Policy and Administration. ​