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A company director from East London who defrauded SARS will have to fork out over R22 000 per month to pay the money back.
Hawks Spokesperson Warrant Officer Ndiphiwe Mhlakuvana says 38-year-old Phumla Gwanya and her company Siyaduma Trading were sentenced in the East London Regional Court on Friday.
She says between 2014 and 2017, Gwanya submitted fraudulent documents on 201 VAT returns on behalf of her company, declaring zero income.
Gwanya claimed that she was not doing business during that time but had supplied services to several municipalities in the Eastern Cape.
She was sentenced to five years of direct imprisonment, wholly suspended for three years.
The investigations confirmed that SARS was prejudiced out of cash of over R600 000.
Gwanya was ordered to pay the money back to SARS in monthly instalments of R22 506.61
