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Legal and Policy - 26 June 2025

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  • 19 June 2025 – Customs and Excise Act, 1964: The correction notice, scheduled for publication in the Government Gazette, relates to the correction of the English version of Note 10 in Chapter 84 in Notice No. R. 1089 of Government Gazette No. 45378 published on 22 October 2021, by referring to “84.85” instead of “85.85” where it occurs in the last line of that Note.

Publication details will be made available later

  • 20 June 2025 – Customs and Excise Act, 1964: Publication details for correction notice, R6323, as published in Government Gazette 52882 of 20 June 2025, are now available.
  • 20 June 2025 – Join SARS, Government Departments, and the Private Sector in Celebrating Small, Micro, and Medium Enterprises (SMMEs)

Date: 27 June 2025

Time: 09:00–15:00

Theme: Supporting SMMEs: Employment, Livelihoods, and Economic Growth

To attend the SMME Day at a location convenient, view the venues in various regions.

What to Bring

Need help with your taxes? SARS will be there for you. You can bring your own device if you need help logging into your eFiling profile or updating your details. Also bring supporting documents, such as an updated business address and contact details.

Your Tax Matters

SMMEs are important employers and drivers of economic growth. SARS works with SMMEs to raise awareness and make it easier to meet their tax obligations.

We will help you to:

  • Register for Income Tax on eFiling/SARS MobiApp.
  • Update registration information.
  • Check your Tax Compliance Status.
  • Check account balance.
  • File tax returns.
  • Deregister a dormant company with SARS.

For more information, visit Small Businesses – Taxpayers.

  • 20 June 2025 – You are requested to provide information for the service as outlined in RFI03/2025. The conditions specified in the SARS Procurement Policy apply.
  • 23 June 2025 – SARS is aware of websites claiming that salaried workers can receive tax refunds of R8000.00 if they file before 30 July. This information is not accurate, and deadlines stipulated are incorrect. Tax assessments vary based on individual circumstances. For accurate information, visit the official SARS website at sars.gov.za and avoid third-party websites. Filing season deadlines are available here.
  • 23 June 2025 – The state provides state warehouses for the safekeeping of goods. These are managed by Customs. The purpose of this list of unentered goods is to notify the importer, exporter and any other person that has interest in the goods that the goods have been taken up into the State warehouse and if they remain unentered they will be disposed in accordance with the provisions of the Customs & Excise Act.

See the latest Customs Weekly List of Unentered Goods here.

  • Interpretation Note 90 (Issue 2) – Year of assessment of a company: Accounts accepted to a date other than the last day of a company’s financial year
  • Interpretation Note 19 (Issue 5) – Year of assessment of persons other than companies: Accounts accepted to a date other than the last day of February
  • 24 June 2025 – Income Tax Act, 1962
  • 24 June 2025 – Income Tax Act, 1962
  • 25 June 2025 – The facility codes used in Box 30 on the Customs Clearance Declaration (CCD) has been updated to cancel the depot facility DTCP Warehousing (Pty) Ltd with code R2.

SC-CF-19-A02 – Facilities Code List – External Annexure

  • 25 June 2025 – Income Tax Act, 1962
  • 25 June 2025 – Achieving our Vision of a smart, modern SARS with unquestionable integrity that is trusted and admired is of paramount importance. Pivotal to the delivery of our vision are our digital platforms and technology infrastructure. To provide clarity and certainty, make it easy for taxpayers and traders to comply with their obligations and building public trust and confidence, our technology assets must demonstrate the highest levels of availability, robustness, and security.

In accordance with our Vision and Strategic Objectives, which include modernising our systems to provide Digital and Streamlined online services, we are hard at work ensuring that our digital platforms and technology infrastructure are available, robust, and secure, by performing regular upgrades, enhancements, and maintenance. Considering the above, SARS Digital platform upgrades are scheduled for: Friday, 27 June 2025 from 18h00 to 22h00. During this time, you may experience intermittent service interruption on our eFiling, Tax and Customs Digital Platforms.

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AuthorLegal and Policy
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Date26 June 2025