- Apr 28, 2022
Legal Counsel – Preparation of Legislation – Draft Documents for Public Comment
28 April 2022 – Customs & Excise Act, 1964: Draft Amendment to Forms –
- Substitution of forms –
- DA 185.4B1 – Licensing Client Type 4B1 – Special Manufacturing Warehouse; and
- DA 260 – Traditional African Beer and Alcohol Powder Products (SVM) – Special Manufacturing Warehouse
Due date for public comment: 13 May 2022
- Apr 28, 2022
PAYE Employer Reconciliation BRS V21.1
28 April 2022 – The BRS V21.1 has been updated with a new source code for Long Service Cash Awards and amended validation rules for source codes 3231, 3232, 3234, 7004 and the descriptions for source codes 3601, 3605, 3835, 4587, 7002.
- Apr 26, 2022
Customs Weekly List of Unentered Goods
26 April 2022 – Customs Weekly List of Unentered Goods
- Apr 25, 2022
PAYE Admin penalties now available on eFiling
25 April 2022 – SARS is committed to modernising its service offering to taxpayers and has introduced changes to its systems and processes.
Please note that from today 25 April 2022, SARS will no longer accept manually filed Pay-As-You-Earn (PAYE) disputes and penalty remission requests. The PAYE request for remission or dispute process for Administrative penalties is now available on the existing eFiling platform. Employers can now dispute late payment penalties and administrative penalties online.
- Apr 25, 2022
Third Party Data
- Apr 25, 2022
Tax Directives legislative changes implemented
- 25 April 2022 – Legislative changes to the Tax Directives process have been implemented. The following information is important for Fund Administrators, Insurers, Tax Practitioners, Advisors and taxpayers.
- Taxpayers who are members of a pension preservation or provident preservation fund, who have reached retirement age and are 55 years and older are now allowed to transfer the retirement benefit to another preservation fund or a retirement annuity fund tax neutral on a Form A&D – reason Transfer before Retirement [par 2(1)(c)]
- Taxpayers can now, on retirement, elect to use two thirds (⅔) or more of the total value of the retirement interest in the fund to provide a pension and / or annuity or purchase a living annuity and / or a guaranteed annuity from an Insurer. Alternatively, they can elect to keep a portion of the retirement interest in the fund which will provide a pension and / or annuity and use a portion to purchase a living annuity and / or a guaranteed annuity from an Insurer. However, it is important to note that the condition placed on a purchase of an annuity is that the value of each annuity (living and / or guaranteed and / or remaining in the fund) must be R165 000 and above, respectively.
- A new reason has been added on the IRP3a to cater for foreign companies that are not registered for Pay As You Earn to make severance payments to South African tax residents who have performed work within the Republic for the said company. When the employer pays the employee, the tax practitioner or SARS will select reason <Severance benefit – Paid by a non-resident Employer>
- When the taxpayer/Tax Practitioner completes the return, a new field will be added on the ITR12 to cater for payments made by foreign entities. The taxpayer/Tax practitioner must select <Y>
- This will open a container whereby <new source code 3925) will be generated to capture the amount of the severance benefit received and the Tax Directive number which would have been issued for this purpose.
Click here to access the updated guide.
- Apr 25, 2022
Mobile Tax Units
25 April 2022- The Western Cape schedules for Mobile Tax Units have been published.
- Apr 22, 2022
Customs – Prohibited and Restricted Goods List
22 April 2022 – Import permit from ITAC is no longer required for Tariff 4903.00.
For more information, please see the following webpage: Prohibited, restricted and counterfeit goods.
- Apr 22, 2022
Legal Counsel – Preparation of Legislation – Draft Documents for Public Comment
22 April 2022 – National Legislation: Revised Draft Bill
- Revised Draft Bill – 2022 Draft Rates and Monetary Amounts and Amendment of Revenue Laws Bill (2022 Draft Rates Bill)
- Apr 20, 2022
Tax Directives
20 April 2022 – Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) please note the changes stated in the Tax Directives Interface Specification (IBIR-006 Rev 6.303) will go-live on 25 April 2022. No Directive files should be submitted after 15:00 on 22 April 2022. Applications can be submitted from 25 April 2022.
- Apr 19, 2022
Customs Registration Licensing
19 April 2022 – Updated document: Registration Licensing and Designation – External Policy
The facility codes used in Box 30 on the Customs Clearance Declaration (CCD) have been updated to include the licensing of a new container depot in Cape Town. If the applicable facility codes listed in SC-CF-19-A02 is not inserted in Box 30 on the CCD, Customs will not be able to transmit electronic messages to the licensed facility in terms of the status of the consignment and the CCD will be rejected.
- Apr 19, 2022
Legal Counsel – Secondary Legislation – Tariff Amendments 2022
19 April 2022 – Customs & Excise Act, 1964: Publication details for tariff amendment notice R2030, as published in Government Gazette 46248 on 19 April 2022, are now available
- Apr 18, 2022
Legal Counsel – Secondary Legislation – Tariff Amendments 2022
18 April 2022 – Customs & Excise Act, 1964: The tariff amendment notice, scheduled for publication in the Government Gazette, relates to the amendments to –
- Part 1 of Schedule No. 2, in order to amend the anti-dumping duties imposed on the species, Gallus Domesticus, originating in or imported from the Netherlands, in order to include Pluimveeslachterij C van Miert BV, Pluimveeslachterij Mieki Hunsel BV and Frisia Foods BV on the list of companies exempted from paying the duties – Minute 13/2022 addendum to ITAC Report 666 (with retrospective effect from 23 August 2021).
Publication details will be made available later
- Apr 14, 2022
Tender
14 April 2022 – RFP50/2021: Provision of Fleet Management Services for a Period of Five (5) Years
- Apr 14, 2022
Excise – Importation and Marking of Aliphatic Hydrocarbon solvents and illuminating Kerosene
14 April 2022 – SARS wishes to clarify the process to deal with the licensed warehousing for the marking of imported unmarked illuminating kerosene / specified aliphatic hydrocarbon solvents (AHS). See our letter to Trade here.
- Apr 14, 2022
Legal Counsel – Secondary Legislation – Tariff Amendments 2022
14 April 2022 – Customs & Excise Act, 1964: Publication details for tariff amendment notices R2010, R2011 and R2012, as published in Government Gazette 46224 on 14 April 2022, are now available
- Apr 13, 2022
Legal Counsel – Secondary Legislation – Tariff Amendments 2022
13 April 2022 – Customs & Excise Act, 1964: The tariff amendment notices, scheduled for publication in the Government Gazette, relate to the amendments to –
- Part 3F of Schedule No. 1, by an increase of 7.5 per cent in the rate of environmental levy on carbon dioxide equivalent from R134 to R144 per tonne, to give effect to the Budget proposals announced by the Minister of Finance on 23 February 2022 (with retrospective effect from 1 January 2022);
- Part 5A of Schedule No. 1, by the increase of R1.50 per litre of the general fuel levy for petrol from R2.35/l to R3.85/l and for diesel from R2.20/l to R3.70/l, as announced by the Minister of Finance on 31 March 2022 (with effect from 1 June 2022 ); and
- Part 3 of Schedule No. 6, as a consequence to the increase in the general fuel levy, as announced by the Minister of Finance on 31 March 2022; the diesel refund provisions are adjusted accordingly (with effect from 1 June 2022).
Publication details will be made available later
- Apr 13, 2022
SARS Pinetown office closed
13 April 2022 – The SARS Pinetown office will be closed on Thursday, 14 April 2022. All virtual appointments will be honoured. Our apologies for the inconvenience.