Mark Kingon News Today

The cost of school uniforms is crippling parents, who have expressed their frustration at Eastern Cape schools forcing them to buy from either the school’s own shop or a single supplier, with no way to save costs. Last week, Competition Commission spokesperson Siyabulela Makunga said they had received more than 220 complaints across the country about high uniform costs and possible violations of the Competition Act.

The revenue service reveals 88% of non-provisional personal income tax returns were made through eFiling and the MobiApp.

SARS’s Mark Kingon allays tax practitioners’ fears, amid the rising uptake of auto-assessments for tax returns.

Efforts to reduce massive backlogs underway.

Pretoria - Often dreaded by the public for the paperwork associated with the filing of personal income tax returns, the South African Revenue Service (SARS) has come a long way since the advent of democracy in the country 18 years ago, in making it easier for taxpayers to honour their obligation.

There is lot of fraud and abuse involved with potential Vat submissions. For this reason Sars potentially targets verifying Vat refunds specifically. Elle-Sarah Rossato – tax controversy and dispute resolution, PwC.

The main concern is the drawn-out verification process.

The Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) is in a fix to make a decision to either tax the Church or not, a move which has received mixed reactions from the

A well-functioning revenue authority is central to a well-functioning democracy – and Sars has come a long way.

A sure-fire way for Sars to gauge that something is amiss, is to look at someone’s lifestyle.