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Tax Practitioners

Welcome to the Tax Practitioners webpage

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.

What’s New:

23 April 2021 – Enhancements to Tax Type Transfer Process and Payments
The following functionality on eFiling has been enhanced:

Manage Tax Types:
- Registering new taxpayers/entities on an organisation’s portfolio
- Activation/deactivation of specific tax types
- Transfer of tax types between taxpayers, tax practitioners and registered representatives on eFiling
- Approval of tax type activations or transfer requests by the taxpayer or registered representative for that tax type.
Payments
- Allow payments that are still in an ‘awaiting authorization’ status to be cancelled.
13 April 2021 – CIT Audit letters
Corporate Income Tax (CIT) Audit Letters will now indicate actual dates for submission of relevant material. Failure to adhere to the stipulated deadlines may result in refunds being withheld or assessments being raised, see more here.