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
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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
The SA Revenue Service (Sars) has come out in strong defence of a new ad valorem duty on computer monitors, saying it’s meant to protect the television industry, despite strong opposition to the new tax. Sars spokesman Adrian Lackay says it is
A new tax on imported monitors has the computer industry increasingly incensed and they want action from authorities to remedy the situation, which they say is harming the technology sector. In April, a 7% ad valorem tax, which
The SA Revenue Service (Sars) alerted taxpayers of possible delays at branch offices around the country on Thursday. This was due to “unexpected IT problems which have affected certain taxpayer services during the course of the morning”, said Sars spokesman Adrian Lackay.