The SA Revenue Service (Sars) will take on former Passenger Rail Agency of SA (Prasa) CEO Lucky Montana unopposed in the Pretoria high court, in a legal bid to attach his assets over a multimillion-rand tax debt.
Sars has also requested Montana, now an MP for the MK party, be declared insolvent because his assets are worth only R10.5m and the tax debt from 2009 to 2019 has ballooned to R55m, including interest.
An insolvency declaration would threaten Montana’s job as an MP.
The matter has been placed on the unopposed court roll after Montana lost his appeal for condonation for the late filing of his answering affidavit last month.
The tax authority’s sequestration application was lodged in 2024, and Montana’s answering affidavit was…