SARS Important Dates

• Legal Counsel – Secondary Legislation – Tariff Amendments 2023
  21 September 2023 – Customs and Excise Act, 1964: The tariff amendment notices, scheduled for publication in the Government Gazette, relate to the following amendments: With effect from 22 September 2023 Part 2 of Schedule No. 4, by the insertion of rebate item 460.15/7312.10.40/01.08, in order to create a rebate provision for the importation of steel […]
  Shane Stoffels
• Media release – Fire at Rissik Street office
  21 September 2023 – The South African Revenue Service (SARS) confirms that a fire broke out at its branch in Rissik Street, Johannesburg, yesterday. All staff and taxpayers were immediately evacuated and no one incurred any serious injuries. The fire was successfully extinguished due to the prompt and efficient response by fire Rescue services. As […]
  Sipho Mabika
• Media statement on the detention of vessels by SARS
  20 September 2023 – The South African Revenue Service (SARS) has noted the media report of 17 September 2023 by the Sunday Times concerning the detention of five vessels involved in the fuel bunkering supply chain. From 2016 SARS has been engaging with the fuel industry to encourage compliance with the legislation concerning the importation, […]
  Wilna Meintjes
• SARS branch in Rissik street, Johannesburg closed
  20 September 2023 – The SARS branch in Rissik street, Johannesburg CBD, will be closed from this afternoon until further notice. All virtual appointments will still be honoured. Our apologies for the inconvenience.
  Wilna Meintjes
• Tenders
  19 September 2023 – RFP15/2023: Appointment of a service provider for the provision of events management services for ATAF and BRICS events Briefing presentation
  Karen Truter
• Customs and Excise – Air Passenger Tax registration and payment
  18 September 2023 – The registration and payment of Air Passenger Tax have been enhanced. The related guides have been updated: APT-02-Air Passenger Tax – External Policy APT-03 – Air Passenger Tax – External Guide SC-CF-19 – Registration Licencing and Designation – External Policy SC-CF-19-A01 – Documentary Requirements – External Annexure SC-CF-19-A03 – Exemption from […]
  Sipho Mabika
• Inclusion of IT3(t) & IT3(d) to the IT3 Third-Party Data reporting
  18 September 2023 – The third-party data reporting process needs Representative Taxpayers or their representatives to report the required ITR12T information via the IT3-01 and IT3-02 forms. Representative Taxpayers or their representatives can view and correct the data or certificates that was submitted to SARS on request. SARS requests that Section 18A approved entities (e.g., […]
  Sipho Mabika
• e@syFile™ – release notes
  18 September 2023 – e@syFile version 7.4.0 was released.
  Sipho Mabika
• Tax Directives successful implementation
  18 September 2023 – Enhancements to the Tax Directives system have been successfully implemented in line with the ‘IBIR-006 Tax Directives Interface Specification Version 6.505. We appreciate your continued support in our endeavour to provide clarity & certainty and make it easy for taxpayers and traders to fulfil their obligations whilst ensuring safe & secure […]
  Wilna Meintjes
• Tax Directives changes and enhancements
  15 September 2023 – Prior to 1 March 2023 a member of a retirement annuity fund could only transfer all the contracts / policies in that retirement annuity fund to only one other retirement annuity fund. With effect from 1 March 2023 the definition of “retirement annuity fund” was amended to provide a member with more than one contract […]
  Karen Truter