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The risks at SARS of being a Public Officer for your company

In a nutshell, there aren’t any, despite what SARS imply when they talk to us. SARS love to make out that the Public Officer can be held liable for the tax sins of the company, but there’s nothing in the legislation to support this. What is important is that all companies must appoint a Public Officer and that failure to do so can lead to penalties of R25 per day, which can amount to quite a lot of money over, say, 365 days. I’ve never known SARS to impose this penalty, but there’s always a first time. So what is…

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Tax clearances force companies to comply

The idea of Tax Clearances was a master stroke by SARS. If you have traded, you can’t get one unless you’ve done your bookkeeping and your tax returns. Many creditors will not pay unless the supplier produces a tax clearance certificate. Whether or not that is just a ruse to delay payment, the effect is that we often get people coming to us for an urgent tax clearance so that they can get a payment from a debtor. That’s when they learn that we’ll first have to do their bookkeeping (usually for three or four years), then their Provisional Tax…

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