SARS Has Allegedly Targeted Businessman Dali Tambo for R1.7 million in Unpaid Tax

• Popular South African television host and media personality Dali Tambo is reportedly owing the taxman over R1 million
• SARS has reportedly applied for a judgment against Tambo as he reportedly owes over R1.7 million in unpaid personal income tax.
• South Africans on social media lambasted the South African Revenue Service (SARS) for demanding money from the businessman

Former People of The South TV host Dali Tambo, who is the son of African National Congress (ANC) stalwart Oliver Tambo, reportedly owes the taxman over R1 million.

The popular South African media personality previously made headlines when he delivered an impassioned plea to the ANC party at a wreath-laying ceremony in Ekurhuleni.

The businessman, like Makhadzi in the past, has reportedly been struggling to settle his debt with SARS.

Sunday World reveals that Tambo owes the South African Revenue Service (Sars) more than R1.7-million in unpaid personal income tax.

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The publication adds that SARS applied for a judgment against the businessman in the Johannesburg High Court last week after Tambo failed to settle his debt.

Sunday World shared on its X account on Sunday, 17 August 2025, that SARS is pursuing Tambo over his tax bill.

Social media reacts to Tambo's alleged bill

@ZengFuey commented:

"SARS living up to the tax the wealthy or wealth tax ideology😏."

@KastroSol said:

"It’s only us, the poor, who pay tax accordingly. In fact, they just take it from us."

@Sithembele60489 wrote:

"Somalian spaza shops, Pakistanis, Bangladeshi, and salons of foreign nationals are not paying tax. SARS and the ANC government are a scam."

@SamoriXTure reacted:

"Do you want their tax or do you want them gone? Please choose one."

@BigStwei commented:

"Yet the majority of foreigners don't pay this. F*ck ANC and SARS."

@VukaKhondlo replied:

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"Zero pursuit of Pakistanis, and Bangladeshi, and Somalians."

@Mohlaodi7 said:

"Children of ANC struggle stalwarts are losing grip of South Africa. South Africa e eme ka maoto," (South Africa is on its knees.)

@URfShtvBtsQcJUb reacted:

"SARS, NPA, SAPS, ANC Govt, DA all protected #PhalaPhalaFarmGate and ignored foreign currency kept in Sofas and dealing in foreign currency. Some of these institutions pursued Zuma, Adv Mkhwebane and now Adv Mpofu. Fortunately, lies have short legs."

@AllDayIWin said:

"@sarstax, when are you not pursuing all illegal business on each town's streets?"

@ben Otto replied:

"Maybe he never declared the R10 million he got from Louis Liebenberg?"

@T commented:

"That is what our ANC government is good at, harassing South Africans to pay tax so they can accommodate the whole African continent and other countries around the world."

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Source: Briefly News