{"id":629608,"date":"2022-09-29T16:34:49","date_gmt":"2022-09-29T14:34:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=629608"},"modified":"2022-09-29T16:39:07","modified_gmt":"2022-09-29T14:39:07","slug":"helping-business-flow-consult-ceo-hannes-van-den-berg-talks-about-sars-and-tax-collection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/finance\/629608\/helping-business-flow-consult-ceo-hannes-van-den-berg-talks-about-sars-and-tax-collection\/","title":{"rendered":"Helping business flow \u2013 Consult CEO Hannes van den Berg talks about SARS and tax collection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hannes van den Berg is the CEO of Consult &#8211; a position he has held since 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Van den Berg began working at Momentum in 2002 and stayed with the company until it founded its Consult sub-business in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>He held several positions at momentum, including the Head of Finance for Momentum Distribution Services, the CFO for Momentum Sales, and the CFO for Momentum Wealth and Wealth International.<\/p>\n<p>Van den Berg then took the role of COO at Momentum Wealth before finally joining Consult.<\/p>\n<p>In this episode of Helping business flow, Van den Berg discusses SARS\u2019 attempts to improve its tax collection strategy and how effective this has been.<\/p>\n<p>He talks about the effect of emigration on SARS\u2019 tax base and highlights the other economic concerns affecting tax collection in South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>He also explains how SARS can improve taxpayer confidence, such as through wise government spending.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, Van den Berg makes a prediction for the future of tax collection in South Africa and suggests that partnership between the government and the private sector will significantly boost the economy.<\/p>\n<p>The full Helping business flow interview with Hannes van den Berg is embedded below.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ESBcGo3XSak\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this Helping business flow episode, Hannes van den Berg discusses SARS\u2019 attempts to improve its tax collection strategy and how effective this has been.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":629610,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11121],"tags":[16942,17462],"class_list":["post-629608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-finance","tag-consult-by-momentum","tag-hannes-van-den-berg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629608","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=629608"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":629889,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629608\/revisions\/629889"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/629610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=629608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=629608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=629608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}