Government Connect Issue 21 (August 2024)
- Benefits of eFiling
- Self-help services via your mobile device
- Collection of Tax Debt from Third Parties
Government Connect Issue 20 (July 2024)
- Income Tax Return Filing Dates
- Check if you are your Auto Assessed
- Verification of banking details
- Updated guides for 2024 Filing Season
- Update on changes for 2024 Filing Season
Government Connect Issue 19 (June 2024)
- Filing Season 2024 Dates
- SARS Online Query System (SOQS) External Guide
- Third Party Data – Changes in SARS Medical Aid Data Reporting
- Visit Your Nearest SARS Branch to Verify Changes to Your Personal Details
- Auto Assessments
- Adding or Changing Banking Details
- Use our Digital Channels
- Access to Audit Files
- What Happens if I Do Not Agree with a SARS Assessment
- Tax Directives Software Update for the Two Pot Retirement System
- Payment of Contingency Fees for Tax Services Received
Government Connect Issue 18 (May 2024)
- Employer Annual Reconciliation period
- Business Rescue email address
- Dispute Resolution Enhancements for Trusts
- Reporting of Digital Fraud
- Enhancements to reduce eFiling registration fraud
Government Connect Issue 17 (April 2024)
- Employees’ Tax Compliance Starts with You
- Third-party Data Annual Submission
- Advancement in requesting SARS certificate for Third-party Data Submission
- Enhancement of SARS Online Query System
Government Connect Issue 16 (March 2024)
- Information on Employees’ Allowances for the 2025 Year of Assessment
- PAYE Employer Reconciliation BRS for the 2025 Tax Year
- SARS Webinar on Digital Channels
- Tax Directive System Enhancements Implemented (February 2024)
- Tax Directives: Involuntary Transfer before Retirement
Government Connect Issue 15 (November 2023)
- VAT Training for municipalities
- Managing the Employer Account
- Basic Guide to Section 18A approval
- Implementing two-factor authentication to login on the SARS MobiApp
- Enhancements: Tax Compliance Status
- Digital fraud reporting now online
Government Connect Issue 14 (October 2023)
- Charging of contingency fees
- Media release: Constitutional Court rules on duty-free purchases
- SARS publishes PAYE monthly submission external BRS
- Additional functionality for the SARS Online Query System (SOQS)
- Expansion of IT3 Third Party Data Reporting to include Income from Trusts and Donations Made
- Tax Directives system implemented
- Customs refunds and drawbacks
- Employer Interim Reconciliation Declarations (EMP501)
- SARS Payment Rules Guide
- VAT Connect Newsletter
- VAT-modernisation discussion paper published
Government Connect Issue 13 (September 2023)
- Employer’s Interim Reconciliation
- Outsourcing of Overdue Debt
- What happens when SARS pays a refund into an old bank account?
- Do not agree with the Auto Assessment?
- Supporting Documents
- Tax Directive system enhancements scheduled for September 2023
- SARS introduces document encryption to protect taxpayer confidentiality
- Trade Facilitation Index Survey
- Roodepoort man sentenced for fraudulent tax refunds
- Training Intervention for Municipalities conducted by SARS and National Treasury
Government Connect Issue 12 (August 2023)
- Tax Compliance Status
- Filing Season Updates
- Tax Return Status Dashboard
- Check your auto-assessment status
- Tips on how to upload or submit supporting documents using our digital channels
- Deductibility of interest on a bond as part of home office expenses – 2023 Tax Year
- CAPTCHA error when uploading supporting documents to the SARS Online Query System
- Updated BRS – PAYE Employer Reconciliation for 2023/2024
- SARS wins court case against delinquent taxpayer
- Provisional Tax Due at the end of August
- Amendments to the SARS Payments Rules
- Scams – SARS Stop Order
- Administration of Deceased Estates
Government Connect Issue 11 (July 2023)
- 2023 Filing season for Individuals and Trusts
- Check if you have been auto-assessed
- Updated Confirmation of Disability Diagnosis (ITR-DD) form
- Tax implications if married in community of property
- Updated Guides for Filing Season 2023
- Corporate Income Tax (CIT) – Form and system changes
- Scam alert
- Training Intervention for Municipalities conducted by SARS and National Treasury
Government Connect Issue 10 (May 2023)
- Employer Annual Reconciliation Declaration closes on 31 May 2023
- Employers must keep former employees’ tax records for at least five years
- Dispute Resolution
- Preparing for an Appointment with SARS
- Services offered by SARS via the SARS MobiApp
- Enhancements to the Tax Compliance Status (TCS) Process
Government Connect Issue 9 (March 2023)
- Employer Annual Declaration opened on 1 April and closes on 31 May 2023
- Changes to the Auto Assessment Function
- New USSD service launched
- Importance of ensuring correct registered particulars
- Deregistration of Tax Types
- Imported services vs electronic services
- Connect Newsletters
- Tax compliance statement issued by SARS on Phala Phala
- Scam alert
- Tax Directives
Government Connect Issue 8 (February 2023)
- Have your employees received a Personal Income Tax Administrative Penalty notification?
- Latest scam
- Webinar for taxpayers in the arts, entertainment and sports sector
- Attribution of nett income to a public benefit organisation
- Latest SMME Connect Newsletter is available
- VAT Connect Newsletter
- Input tax on motor cars
- Publications
