Rapper AKA slams R2m tax bill claims
AKA has slammed reports that he is in hot water with the taxman for allegedly owing at least R2-million.
The rapper labelled the claims as another smear campaign by his ex-record label boss‚ Raphael Benza.
AKA said he would not be flaunting his riches on social media if he owed SARS money.
“This is nothing more than Vth Season and Benza planting stories in the media,” he said.
AKA’s comments come just days after City Press reported that the rapper’s lawyer used SARS as an excuse for the rapper apparently not paying Benza an amount of R650 000 which was supposed to be settled by the end of last month.
The report claimed that AKA’s lawyer provided papers saying that the rapper owed SARS at least R2- million.
The Baddest hitmaker claimed that Benza was trying to tarnish his reputation.
“Life is great and I am doing well,” AKA said.
“It is just unfortunate that Vth Season is on its last and Benza is doing everything he can to tarnish my name.”
AKA and Benza have been embroiled in a public spat ever since the rapper left the record label earlier this year to become an independent artist and start his own company‚ Beam Group.
Benza told City Press that all AKA’s money woes were a result of his own negligence and that when he managed AKA he only managed the rapper’s brand and music.
“I advised Kiernan regularly to pay SARS and he told me he was paying,” Benza said.
“I never asked for proof. I trusted him.”
The rapper previously denied that he owed Vth Season any money‚ and said the company had lost its prestige after his departure.
“Vth Season floated their entire company on me. I was the only artist that ever really made them money‚” he said. – TshivaLIVE