4 February 2026 – The South African Revenue Service (SARS) has issued an updated version 6.902 of the interface specification IBIR-006, due to certain errors that were identified.
These included:
- The maximum record length (increase from 5000 to 6000 characters)
- The number of occurrences of the values of the amounts pertaining to Two Pot transfers, when transferring before retirement on Form A&D (decrease from 4 to 1).
Trade testing dates remain as communicated. This commences on 09 February 2026 and will run until 12 March 2026.
The final software implementation is planned for April 2026.
