{"id":247217,"date":"2026-10-15T12:30:23","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T10:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/angola-cotton-candy-at-angolas-tax-authority-part-i\/"},"modified":"2026-10-15T12:30:23","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T10:30:23","slug":"angola-cotton-candy-at-angolas-tax-authority-part-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/angola-cotton-candy-at-angolas-tax-authority-part-i\/","title":{"rendered":"Angola: Cotton Candy At Angola&#8217;s Tax Authority (Part I)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"39\">Jos\u00e9 Leiria chaired Angola&#8217;s General Tax Administration (AGT) until 8 September 2026, when he was appointed secretary of state for tax affairs. Finance Minister Vera Daves has since appointed Br\u00e1ulio Assis, AGT&#8217;s former communications chief, to head Leiria&#8217;s office.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"64\">Both men feature in Maka Angola&#8217;s investigations into the authority&#8217;s dealings with In Pressionante Kianda. Earlier reporting showed how the company <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.makaangola.org\/2026\/09\/angolas-tax-authority-awards-kz3-15bn-contract-to-company-that-helped-shape-its-own-tender-part-i\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">helped shape the tender it went on to win<\/a>. Messages attributed to Assis indicate&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202610150101.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Angola\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/angola\/\">Angola<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jos\u00e9 Leiria chaired Angola&#8217;s General Tax Administration (AGT) until 8 September 2026, when he was appointed secretary of state for tax affairs. Finance Minister Vera Daves has since appointed Br\u00e1ulio Assis, AGT&#8217;s former communications chief, to head Leiria&#8217;s office. Both men feature in Maka Angola&#8217;s investigations into the authority&#8217;s dealings with In Pressionante Kianda. Earlier [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":247218,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4262],"tags":[258,256,3941,4263,13368,9367,44789,11099,257,7140,254,8352],"class_list":["post-247217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-angola","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-angola","tag-angola-news","tag-angolas","tag-authority","tag-candy","tag-cotton","tag-news","tag-part","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tax"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247217\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}