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Welcome to the Tax Practitioners' webpage
SARS has committed itself to refining our service offerings to practitioners. A Practitioners Unit has been established, with the following roles:
- Managing the register of practitioners
- Regulation of practitioners
- Responding to instances of unprofessional conduct and non-compliance by practitioners in their capacity as practitioners and as taxpayers
- Practitioners strategy and enhanced service offerings
- Analytical capability - trends and issues
- Partnership with practitioners
- The Unit will not take over operational management of business units, and does not replace existing complaints procedures available to practitioners. It also does not deal with operational, tax-specific or taxpayer-specific queries.
- Operational, tax-specific or taxpayer-specific queries can be addressed to the Practitioners Call Centre or to your nearest branch.
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In addition to our Tax Practitioners segment, we have segment pages for Small Businesses, Employers, Embassies, Expatriates and Exempt Institutions.
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We offer the following services to Tax Practitioners:
- Dedicated Call Centre for registered practitioners;
- Dedicated consultants in larger branches for registered practitioners;
- Web page for practitioners for frequent updates on developments;
- Email updates on developments for registered practitioners;
- Easyfile offline electronic filing solution for practitioners;
- eFiling online electronic filing solution for practitioners;
- Training sessions and guides for practitioners.
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Guides for Practitioners - General Guides
Guides for Practitioners - Return Completion
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How to register as a Practitioner?
Every practitioner who provides tax advice or completes returns for the payment of a fee must be registered with SARS as a tax practitioner. Click here for more info.
Will SARS be granting extensions for the late submission of PAYE reconciliations?
The new process and software introduced this year has required substantial change or businesses, payroll administrators and practitioners.Businesses have gone to great lengths to comply and many, smaller businesses especially, have struggled to meet their obligations on time. As a result a number of businesses, some business organisations and tax practitioners who want to comply have asked for more time. We have therefore decided to extend the deadline for submission of PAYE reconciliation declarations (EMP501) and employee tax certificates by two weeks to Friday 12 September 2008.
If an employer has submitted a reconciliation which then subsequently fails the validation, will SARS impose penalties when the employer resubmits the reconciliation?
No, SARS will not impose penalties in these circumstances.
Can an employer issue their IRP5's after submission of their reconciliation?
Yes, if the employer did the reconciliation on the provided software.
Why can an employer not submit their reconciliation on eFiling, after having sucessfully completed the reconciliation on the software?
Please ensure that EMP501 is selected as a tax type on your eFiling profile.
Where can we obtain source codes for the main income codes?
All source codes are available on Easyfile under the lookup function. |
| Regulations of Practitioners |
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In order to promote better compliance and ensure that taxpayers receive advice consistent with the tax legislation, in 2002 SARS initiated a discussion on the regulation of tax consultants and advisors in South Africa, with appropriate sanctions in the event of non-compliance with tax legislation.
SARS received a number of comments from practitioners, professional bodies and other interested parties in respect of the Draft Bill on the Regulation of Practitioners, on the basis on which a revised version of the Draft Bill has been published. SARS is in the process of reviewing the various comments that were received. We anticipate a further round of consultation with practitioners who made submissions before tabling the legislation in Parliament.
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We receive a number of queries from practitioners. In order to assist us in referring these to the correct SARS business units, and to ensure that they have the necessary information required to action your queries, we are introducing standardised forms for submission of your queries to us.
Please remember to save the form on your PC before submitting it to us.
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