Midweek Review
All Yours Mr.Taxman!
By Lynn Ockersz
This is no Pandora’s Box of perplexities,
O Mr. Taxman of this unique Isle of the South;
All you have to do in these tragi-comic times,
Is to wipe the dust off your not-so-high Returns files,
And find out if the big, local, scandal-scarred names,
Against whom there is an offshore black money charge,
Have placed on record the wealth they have amassed;
If they have not, Mr. Taxman, be of courageous heart,
And hold them strictly accountable for their evasive act;
For, by keeping taxable income under multiple wraps,
They have snatched nutrition from children’s mouths,
Robbed the Treasury of dwindling development funds,
And cruelly stamped out sputtering fires in humble hearths.