
Are You Ready for the Next Provisional Tax Deadline?
The second provisional tax deadline for the 2025 tax year is just days away (28 February 2025). It’s the trickiest and most important provisional tax deadline of the tax year, because the income estimates on which it’s based must be highly accurate. Estimates that don’t fall within 80 – 90% of your actual taxable income can expose taxpayers to a stiff 20% under-estimation penalty.
We can help you to meet this important deadline and ensure that it meets SARS’ stringent criteria for compliance and zero penalties.

Tax Compliance in 2025: Help Is at Hand
SARS has warned that it will intensify and deepen its existing administrative efforts to drive taxpayer compliance, deploying more data science and AI, and imposing significant legal and administrative costs on non-compliant taxpayers.
This means that in 2025, maintaining full tax compliance will be more crucial than ever. Your best shot at ensuring all the compliance requirement boxes are ticked continuously and efficiently is to rely on our friendly and professional expertise.

How To Avoid an eFiling Profile Hijacking
SARS eFiling profile hijackings are becoming an increasingly concerning and common hazard. Reports of this type of cybercrime have peaked in recent months and both individuals and businesses must take proactive steps to prevent an attack.
This Cyber Security Awareness Month, it’s vital to understand how you could fall prey to cybercriminals. Improving your cybersecurity processes and relying on a trusted accountant can go a long way towards protecting you and your business.

How to Breeze Through a SARS Audit
Nobody wants to go through a SARS audit, as collating all the documents requires time, money and effort. What’s more, it may result in the levying of understatement penalties of up to 200% with the harsher 200% penalty applying in instances where the taxpayer is either obstructive or is a repeat offender.
You can expect more frequent and tougher audits as SARS continues to step up its enforcement and collection efforts. But it’s not all doom and gloom. Allowing our experienced team to manage your SARS audits will save you time and money, and ensure compliance – allowing you to breeze through the audit process.

Provisional Tax: Are You Ready for the Crucial 29 February Deadline?
Especially for taxpayers required to make provisional tax payments on income as both individuals and as owners of companies, it may seem that a provisional or final income tax deadline lurks around every corner, with the next and crucial second payment deadline for most companies and individuals just a few short weeks away on 29 February 2024.
Given the numerous declarations and payments overlapping through the year, provisional tax is among the most confusing aspects of the tax regime, and the most heavily penalised, making professional assistance essential when attending to provisional tax responsibilities.

How to Achieve Tax Compliance Throughout 2024
Tax compliance is accepted as an indicator of how well the affairs of a business or individual are managed and their good standing in terms of their legal obligations. It also saves a great deal of time and money.
Achieving and maintaining tax compliance in 2024 will be more challenging than ever before, as SARS continues to step up both its compliance requirements and the prosecution of non-compliant taxpayers. This makes it essential to rely on the expertise of your accountant, which is also recommended by SARS.

Dispute with SARS? Here are the New Rules…
At some point over the many years of submitting returns and paying taxes, individual and corporate taxpayers will have grounds to dispute an assessment or decision from SARS. Fortunately, there are clear dispute resolution rules that guide both the taxpayer and SARS in resolving these disputes.
Earlier this year, some changes were made to SARS’ dispute resolution rules, and in this article we briefly summarise the most important changes and provide reminders of crucial issues that remain unchanged.

SARS Admin Penalties: What Taxpayers Can Do
SARS has imposed administrative non-compliance penalties on hundreds of thousands of taxpayers this year, following recent changes to the admin penalty rules. Once-off and especially recurring penalties quickly add up to a significant tax debt, and also lead to a non-compliant tax status and tax refunds being withheld.
Here's what to do if you already have accumulated an admin penalty tax debt and how to avoid these admin penalties going forward.

Corporate Taxpayers: Hello Tougher SARS Verifications
While SARS’ announcement of the removal of the supplementary declaration for Corporate Income Tax (CIT) for companies or close corporations – the IT14SD form - appears to indicate less paperwork, cost and time when a company is selected for CIT verification, the reality is that it will result in greater scrutiny during the verification process.

Common Tax-Related Criminal Offences, and How to Avoid Them…
Most tax criminal offences are not premeditated acts of tax evasion, but ordinary events that now - in terms of the Tax Administration Act - expose individuals and businesses to the possibility of committing offences that carry harsh penalties, including fines, imprisonment, and other implications for those convicted.