The South African Institute of Chartered Accountants (SAICA) encourages taxpayers issued with an auto assessment from the South African Revenue Service (SARS) to carefully examine it before treating it as correct.

Following recent reports in the media on the status of UNISA’s programmes accredited by SAICA, we reiterate our previously communicated stance that UNISA retains its SAICA accreditation.

The Companies and Intellectual Property Commission (CIPC), published a notice on 22 June 2022 that will allow companies and/or close corporations (CCs) that are classified as “in deregistration”, to transfer their deregistration from 1 July 2022 by the CIPC due to the non-submission of annual returns (AR Deregistration) to “voluntary deregistration”.