10 November 2015 – Joint Media Release by the National Treasury and the South African Revenue Service
PRETORIA, 10 November 2015 – The 2015 Tax Statistics bulletin was released today. The objective of this publication is to present comprehensive tax revenue data in a manner that will complement and help contextualise economic and demographic data provided by other publications. Feedback from a variety of sources indicates that tax statistics also provide valuable insights […]
18 November 2015 – Last Saturday to file tax returns is 21 November
Pretoria, 18 November 2015 – This is the last Saturday when 25 SARS branch offices will extend working hours in anticipation of an increase in the number of taxpayers who require assistance with filing their returns. Thousands of tax payers turned up at SARS offices in malls and cities to do their last minute submissions last […]
11 November 2015 – 25 SARS Offices open Saturdays 14 and 21 November at 8am
Pretoria, 11 November 2015 – The SARS branch offices will extend working days to Saturdays for the next two weekends – 14 and 21 November – in anticipation of an increase in number of taxpayers who will file their returns. The purpose is to assist taxpayers with their returns. Taxpayers are to note that only issues […]
25 November 2015 – SARS Customs officials detain R4,2 million worth of illicit cigarettes at Limpopo border posts
PRETORIA, 25 November 2015 – Vigilant customs officials thwarted two attempts to smuggle illicit cigarettes worth R4,2 million into the country at two border posts in one day. At the Groblersbridge border post the Customs team detained R3,6 million worth of illicit cigarettes from a truck coming from Zambia en route to Boksburg in Gauteng. At […]
27 November 2015 – Former SARS official arrested for R5-Milliom VAT fraud
Pretoria, 27 November 2015 – A chartered accountant and former SARS employee was arrested for alleged VAT fraud of more than R5-million at her place of work in Centurion earlier today. The fraud happened over a nine year period. The female suspect is a director of a closed corporation (cc) that provides consultancy and bookkeeping services. […]
29 November 2015 – Over 5.94 million meet tax deadline
Pretoria, 29 November 2015 – The South African Revenue Service (SARS) Acting Commissioner, Jonas Makwakwa announced that SARS received 5.94 million tax returns at the end of the Tax Season for non-provisional taxpayers which ended on Friday, 27 November. Announcing the preliminary results Makwakwa paid tribute to taxpayers that met their responsibility. “No doubt this is […]
3 December 2015 – SARS Customs officials nab passenger trying to smuggle gold into SA
PRETORIA, 3 December 2015: – SARS Customs officials last week confiscated gold worth almost R3 million at the King Shaka International Airport (KSIA). The gold was found in the pockets and a moneybag of a male passenger who was hiding it under a Kurta worn over his clothing. The luggage of the passenger, disembarking from Dubai, […]
6 December 2015 – SARS confiscates 39 gold bars, cocaine from passengers
Pretoria, 6 December 2015 – SARS Customs officials at the Oliver Tambo International Airport on Friday evening confiscated 39 gold bars worth R3,3 million found in the hand luggage of two male passengers in the international departure area at the boarding gates. Acting on intelligence, which included collaboration between airlines, Customs officials requested the two passengers […]
9 December 2015 – SARS busts another cocaine smuggler at ORTIA
Pretoria, 9 December 2015 – SARS’s Customs team at Oliver Tambo International Airport (ORTIA) intercepted about 8,5 kg of cocaine with a street value of R2,5 million from a passenger en route to Lagos in Nigeria today. The bust was triggered by SARS’s scanning equipment. It identified opaque images in handbags found in the checked-in bags […]
10 December 2015 – SARS cracks down on high risk sectors
Pretoria, 10 December 2015 – The South African Revenue Service (SARS) Commissioner, Tom Moyane, today announced the use of a new focused approach to combat non-compliance in high-risk sectors. The cash and carry industry is one of the high risk sectors that have been identified. Over the last six months SARS’s risk processes have selected more […]
