CIPC and SARS Registration โ ๏ธ
CIPC Before SARS: The Registration Sequence That Trips Up SMEs ๐ข Starting a business in South Africa comes with a hidden trap that catches thousands of new owners every year, and it’s not about money or paperwork volume. It’s about order ๐ข Get the registration sequence wrong, and your business can’t legally trade, can’t win […]
23 October Deadline: Your Last-Chance for Tax Filing โฐ
The clock is running out โฐ If you haven’t filed your tax return yet, this is your reminder that the individual (non-provisional) filing season deadline is 23 October 2026,ย and SARS is not in a forgiving mood about late submissions. The demand has been so high that SARS even opened some service centres on Saturdays to […]
SARS Third-party Data
SARS Already Knows More Than You Think: Third-Party Data & Auto-Assessments in 2026 ๐ต๏ธ Ever wondered how SARS manages to auto-assess millions of taxpayers, or how it seems to know about income you haven’t mentioned yet? ๐ต๏ธ The answer is a quiet, powerful engine most people never think about: third-party data. And right now it’s […]
SARS Compliance 2026: A conscious crackdown on small business
SARS Is Cracking Down: The Compliance Changes Every SME Must Know for 2026/27 ๐ If it feels like SARS has become faster, smarter and a lot harder to slip past, you’re not imagining it ๐ The South African Revenue Service has spent the past few years modernising aggressively: more data, more automation, tighter validations and […]
Tax Compliance Status: How to Get Your SARS TCS PIN โ
At some point, someone โ a tender authority, a big client, a bank, is going to ask you to “prove you’re tax compliant” ๐ If you go looking for the old paper Tax Clearance Certificate, you’ll find it doesn’t really exist anymore. SARS modernised the whole thing, and in 2026 what people call “tax clearance” […]
Tax Season 2026 Is Open
It’s official โ tax season 2026 is open, and the clock is now ticking โฐ Whether you’re one of the millions being auto-assessed or you’ll be filing a full return, a little organisation now saves a lot of stress (and money) later. So here’s your no-nonsense checklist to get through this season cleanly. ๐ The […]
Auto-Assessed by SARS?
Sometime between 1 and 12 July 2026, around 6 million South Africans will get a message from SARS saying their tax has already been done for them ๐ฑ No forms. No filing. Just a tidy little assessment and, often, a refund on the way. Sounds wonderful, right? And often it is. But here’s the catch […]
Tax Practitioner Pretoria: How to Choose the Right One ๐๏ธ
Let’s be honest: nobody wakes up excited to find a tax practitioner ๐ It usually happens after a trigger. A SARS letter you don’t understand. A refund that vanished into “verification.” A side hustle that suddenly needs declaring. Or that creeping feeling that you’ve been overpaying tax for years. If you’re searching for a tax […]
What Happens If You Ignore SARS?
A Timeline of Bad Decisions โณ There’s a special folder in many South Africans’ lives. For some people it’s a drawer. For others it’s an email label. More often than we’d like to admit, it’s simply denial. ๐ It’s where the SARS letters go to be ignored. And we get it โ SARS correspondence is […]
SARS Payment Arrangement = Plan B ๐ณ
So the assessment landed, and the number at the bottom made your stomach drop ๐ฌ Perhaps business has been slow. A provisional tax payment may have caught you off guard. Sometimes life simply happens. Here’s what most taxpayers don’t realise: owing SARS money you can’t pay right now is a problem. Ignoring it is a […]
