The South African Revenue Service (SARS) has implemented a change for individual income tax registrations for eFiling, which will now require biometric facial recognition. The revenue service said ...

A new report on eFiling profile hijackings finds Sars and other government bodies lacking in their systems and responses.

Further to the above, taxpayers should be aware that the Tax Administration Act compels them to update their personal details within 21 working days from the time when any personal changes occur. This ...

The South African Revenue Service’s (SARS) auto-assessments for 2025 kicked off today, Monday, 7 July 2025, and many users have reported errors accessing the e-filing system. Outage reporting website ...

The South African Revenue Service (SARS) and the Office of the Tax Ombud (OTO) have warned SARS eFiling users about significant threats arising from escalating cybersecurity risks. The OTO said it has ...

The South African Revenue Services (SARS) has announced a new feature for its efiling, digital tax filing system, ahead of the 2025 tax season expected to make the process more simple and accessible.

As part of our programme to build a smart and modern organisation, SARS has introduced a new Express Functionality on our eFiling platform to make it easier for taxpayers to comply with their tax ...

On Monday, the South African Revenue Services (SARS) efiling system opened and immediately crashed when hundreds of thousands of South Africans waiting to electronically file their taxes jumped on the ...

The Tax Ombud is investigating complaints against the South African Revenue Service (SARS) for allegedly failing to help taxpayers whose eFiling profiles were hijacked. The Office of the Tax Ombud ...

The Office of the Tax Ombudsman (OTO) is investigating 16,000 South African Revenue Service (Sars) e-filing profile hijackings that has seen taxpayers lose their tax refunds to cyberfraud criminals.