Over the past few weeks, I have worked with the national treasury to deliver a budget that reinforces South Africa’s fiscal credibility and outlines the measures we will take to improve economic growth and tackle our challenges of poverty, inequality and unemployment
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A total of 5,94m tax returns were received for non-provisional taxpayers, says South African Revenue Service (Sars) acting commissioner Jonas Makwakwa. The announcement follows the tax season coming to an end on Friday. The 5,94m submissions received were
The South African Revenue Service has served notice to organisations that flout the law with a message that the “game is over”. Sars on Wednesday debuted a new container scanner at the Cape Town port, f
Tax filing season has barely started and the first phishing e-mails are already doing the rounds, making it essential for taxpayers to be on high alert. “It’s open season for criminals during tax season,” Lesedi Seforo, team leader
Barry Hore, one of South Africa’s most respected IT and operational leaders, is leaving the South African Revenue Service. He will depart at the end of this month after more than eight years at the tax authority
In the suburb of Erasmuskloof, southeast of Pretoria, lies the sleek, modernist building of the State Information Technology Agency, known as Sita. This agency is the government’s service provider for all IT services or, as those watching the comings and goings of officials over
The move by national treasury and the South African Revenue Service to force foreign suppliers of downloadable digital goods and services to register to pay value-added tax in South Africa makes complete sense, but some administrative issues must still
Almost 4m people had submitted their tax returns by Monday morning, the SA Revenue Service (Sars) said. “At 9am, over 3,8m South Africans had already filed their 2013 income tax return with Sars,” said spokesman Adrian Lackay. He said more than 2m taxpayers
Government wants to begin taxing virtual goods sold online by foreign companies, including e-books and downloaded music. These companies should be required to register as value-added tax (VAT) vendors, finance minister Pravin Gordhan said in his national budget speech in parliament
The SA Revenue Service (Sars) earlier this week inadvertently sent 20 000 taxpayers’ e-mail addresses to other taxpayers. The 20 000 addresses in question were the intended recipients of the Sars e-mail. Realising the error, Sars sent a follow-up e-mail apologising to