Month: March 2023

6 March 2023 – Invitation to a webinar on the SARS Administered Incentives

The South African Revenue Service (SARS) invites you to a webinar to engage Small, Micro, and Medium Enterprises (SMMEs) about various domestic and cross border incentives available to help them grow their businesses. The webinar will also touch on revenue compliance obligations, help Traders understand their responsibilities before the SARS financial year end.

Recent surveys conducted by SARS on SMME Traders revealed that 82.2% are unaware of available Customs & Excise incentives and do not take advantage of them, while 78,6% lacked confidence in their understanding of policies, systems and legislation which can influence their general compliance behaviour.

As an important stakeholder, we invite you to join the webinar, and to extend the invitation to other interested parties.

The details of the webinar are as follows:

Theme: SARS administered Incentives

Date: Thursday, 09 March 2023
Time:  10:00-12:00
Platforms: Zoom and YouTube

Registration link: https://sars-gov-za.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_10qIQSHNS3yfO-Xv3nIoyA

Passcode: 358575

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email with information on how to log on to the webinar.

Source: SARS Tariffs
Webinar on SARS Administered Incentives

06 March 2023 –SARS confirms that it has responded to the request by the leader of the Democratic Alliance, Mr John Steenhuisen, made in terms of section 18(1) of the Promotion of Access to Information Act (PAIA) regarding the declaration of a certain traveller.

The SARS Information Officer, after an extensive search for the record in various SARS Passenger Processing Systems, and engagements with the relevant business units within SARS which he believed may be in custody of and/ or be in possession of and/or have knowledge of the records requested, was advised that the record could not be found and /or may not be in existence.

The SARS Information Officer informed Mr Steenhuisen of the process followed, and accordingly, notified Mr Steenhuisen in terms of section 23(1) of PAIA. That SARS is not in possession of said record.

SARS exercises its mandate without fear, favour, or prejudice in all matters with which it deals. It will continue to do so in this matter. To that end, SARS will continue to comply with the provisions of Section 23(4) of PAIA. If the record in question is found after 5 March 2023, Mr Steenhuisen will be given access to the record unless access is refused on a ground for refusal contemplated in Chapter 4 of PAIA.

For further information, please contact SARSMedia@sars.gov.za

Source: SARS Tariffs
Media release – SARS response to PAIA request by Mr John Steenhuisen

3 March 2023 – The Minister of Finance has approved the new table of rates per kilometre for motor vehicles in respect of the 2024 year of assessment.

The Commissioner of SARS has determined the daily amount for expenditure in respect of meals and incidental costs in the Republic of South Africa in respect of the 2024 year of assessment, for purposes of section 8(1) of the Income Tax Act No. 58 of 1962. The daily amount for travel outside the Republic remains unchanged from 1 March 2019.

The external guide and annexure have been updated.

• PAYE-GEN-01-G03 – Guide for Employers in respect of Allowances – External Guide

Source: SARS Tariffs
Employees’ allowances for 2024 year of assessment

2 March 2023 – Due to a technical problem, a number of calls waiting in the SARS Contact Centre queue were dropped. Our apologies for the inconvenience caused. We request these callers to call again, the problem has been resolved.

Source: SARS Tariffs
SARS Contact Centre