Tax Practitioners

What’s New

12 September 2025 – Tax Practitioner Connect Issue 66 (September 2025)

As the 2025 tax season is nearing its deadlines, staying up to date with the latest tools and deadlines is essential for efficient tax management. In this edition, we introduce the innovative SARS Tax Return Status Dashboard, designed to give taxpayers, representatives, and practitioners real-time insight into the progress of Personal Income Tax returns – eliminating the need for lengthy calls or in-person visits. You’ll also find important information regarding Trust Income Tax updates, including key dates and procedural details to ensure you remain compliant and prepared. Read on for a streamlined overview of these essential topics and make the most of the resources available to you this tax season.

8 September 2025 – Beware of Unauthorised use of SARS Trademarks

SARS holds exclusive rights to its trademarks, including logos, names, and official insignia. These trademarks are important assets that symbolize trust, authority, and the integrity of SARS’s services. We encourage you to take a few minutes to view our latest educational video. Understanding the importance of intellectual property not only protects SARS but also helps preserve the integrity of our collective interactions.

27 March 2025 – New e@syFile™ Employer videos

See the latest videos produced by our Taxpayer Trader and Education Team to help you with using the new version of e@syFile.

26 March 2025 – The new e@syFile™ Employer version 8.0

The new e@syFile™ Employer version 8.0 is now available, bringing a faster, smarter, and more secure way for employers to submit their reconciliations.

Employers need to download and install Version 8.0 to ensure a seamless transition before submission period opens on 1st April 2025. For more information visit e@syFile™ or see our new short video.

23 December 2024 – Protect yourself, only use registered Tax Practitioners!

Be aware of unregistered individuals offering to help with your tax matters, watch our short tutorial video – Protect yourself, only use registered Tax Practitioners!

11 October 2024 – Clarification on the criteria for the recognition of Controlling Bodies and the registration of tax practitioners

The Tax Administration Act stipulates that an individual must register with both a Recognised Controlling Body (RCB) and SARS as a Tax Practitioner if they wish to provide tax related services to taxpayers. An RCB is responsible for overseeing the registration and admission of Tax Practitioners. RCBs are also required to manage their tax practitioner members’ compliance to the registration requirements. To support RCBs and tax practitioners in fulfilling these responsibilities, SARS has reworked the ‘Criteria for the registration of Tax Practitioners and the recognition of controlling bodies’ as previously published and agreed to.

See the following guides for more information:
29 July 2024 – Submitting returns older than five years

SARS has recently received complaints from tax practitioners regarding difficulties in accessing their clients’ returns older than five years. To address this issue, tax practitioners are required to reconfirm their status on eFiling before attempting to request or submit such returns. Once their status has been successfully reconfirmed, tax practitioners may proceed with these requests or submissions.

Additionally, it has been noted that tax administrators linked to tax practitioners are currently unable to request or submit old returns, placing an undue burden on the tax practitioners. In response, SARS has implemented a change allowing tax administrators linked to tax practitioners to request or submit returns older than five years.
12 July 2024 – Check Tax Practitioner’s registration status
If in doubt, remember you can confirm here that your Tax Practitioner is registered.

About Us

SARS places great value on a healthy professional relationship with Tax Practitioners who are key in providing a service to our clients the taxpayers.

SARS is therefore committed to:

Engaging with practitioners continuously and constructively
Providing access and channels to practitioners
Specific Service offerings to registered practitioners
Providing specific communications for Practitioners

Here you will find the latest information and updates from SARS to assist you in serving your clients and in broadening the culture of tax compliance.