A Hollywood motion picture production company that was launched in South Africa amid much-hyped publicity, promising to create jobs and promote local talents, is in fact allegedly doing the opposite – reducing jobs in South Africa. MiclnGrace Studios, based in Bryanston, north of Johannesburg, has been accused by its employees of not only failing to pay taxes and UIF to the SA Revenue Service , but also not submitting the employees’ tax contributions to the receiver of revenue.
MiclnGrace Studios, based in Bryanston, north of Johannesburg, has been accused by its employees of not only failing to pay taxes and UIF to the SA Revenue Service , but also not submitting the employees’ tax contributions to the receiver of revenue. “I went to Sars and gave them my tax and ID numbers and was told I haven’t been paying tax since my previous employment last October. But on my payslips there is a deduction for tax,” said one employee, who asked to remain anonymous.listened to a conversation between an employee and a Sars official confirming the company did not exist on the tax system.
“Some of us have taken them to court. We have had enough of this,” one staffer said. One worker, who also requested not to be named but agreed to be identified as a former personal assistant to Grace Norman, said he was dismissed after he complained about the late payment of his May salary and unpaid UIF.