{"id":291356,"date":"2018-12-19T10:14:52","date_gmt":"2018-12-19T08:14:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=291356"},"modified":"2018-12-19T10:14:52","modified_gmt":"2018-12-19T08:14:52","slug":"bain-says-guilty-of-serious-failure-with-sars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/business\/291356\/bain-says-guilty-of-serious-failure-with-sars\/","title":{"rendered":"Bain says guilty of &#8216;serious failure&#8217; with SARS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bain &amp; Co, the Boston-based consultancy company that was hired to assist in restructuring South Africa\u2019s tax agency in 2015, said it has become \u201cpainfully evident\u201d that the firm\u2019s involvement with the authority was a \u201cserious failure.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Not only was Bain\u2019s hiring potentially irregular, but it overstated the need for change at the South African Revenue Service, allowed the former head of SARS Tom Moyane to influence its work and didn\u2019t walk away when it became clear Moyane \u201chad a different agenda,\u201d Bain said in a statement on its South African website.<\/p>\n<p>The consultancy showed failures of governance, an absence of public sector protocols and naivety about South African politics, Bain said in the statement, adding that it regrets that a former partner did not adequately co-operate with the Nugent Commission of Inquiry into SARS.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have let South Africa and ourselves down.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/291156\/south-africa-tax-agency-dismantled-by-ex-boss-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">South Africa tax agency \u2018dismantled\u2019 by ex-boss \u2013 report<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bain &#038; Co said it has become \u201cpainfully evident\u201d that the firm\u2019s involvement with SARS was a \u201cserious failure.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":80497,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9872],"tags":[26,3246],"class_list":["post-291356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-headline","tag-sars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=291356"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":291358,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291356\/revisions\/291358"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}