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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.
| Filing Season 2009 |
What's New |
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FILING SEASON 2009 UPDATE (20 NOVEMBER 2009)
Dear practitioner
SARS is aware of intermittent problems with the eFiling system today caused by exceptionally high volumes utilising the system resulting in delayed response times and difficulty logging in for certain users at certain times.
We are investigating these problems and working hard to ensure that eFiling operates at peak performance as soon as possible. We understand the concern of taxpayers and practitioners as reported to our Contact Centre regarding their ability to meet the looming deadline of 11.59pm tonight. We would like to again draw the attention of all taxpayers and practitioners to the announcement made by SARS on 14 October 2009 in announcing the implementation of new administrative penalties for outstanding returns namely that:
1. Penalties will be only be levied from 23 November 2009
2. SARS will begin implementing penalties starting with the most non-compliant taxpayers first – i.e. those with multiple outstanding returns
3. Provisional taxpayers in good standing with SARS (i.e. who have no outstanding returns for prior years) have until 28 February 2010 to submit their annual ITR12 income tax return for 2009.
In effect, therefore, income tax returns submitted before 23 November 2009 will not be identified for an administrative penalty
For more information on Filing Season 2009, please visit our Tax Season 2009 webpage, click here.
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Click here for the Tax Practitioners' News Archive.
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| Our Service Offerings |
Segment Communiques |
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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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Please remember to check back soon for the latest newsletter dedicated to practitioners.
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This segment provides email updates of issues affecting the segment to members of the segment directly. You can also subscribe to a general notification facility for email notifications of all updates on the SARS website – please note that this does not replace the normal notices sent out by the Tax Practitioners' Unit to its constituency -
Click here to subscribe to general SARS email notifications. |
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Our Guides for Tax Practitioners |
Top Questions from Practitioners |
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Guides for Practitioners - General Guides
Guides for Practitioners - Return Completion
SARS Practitioners Discussion Paper 2006 – send your comments and feedback to practitionersunit@sars.gov.za.
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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 |
Forms |
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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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