Photo: Moneyweb BUSINESS NEWS - Software company Sage is in “active discussions” with the South African Revenue Service (Sars) to understand how taxpayers can mitigate any impact of late VAT filing for November 2020 and December 2020, “where this was due to events beyond their reasonable control”. Owners of Small, micro and medium enterprises (SMMEs) got anxious and angry when they were unable to log onto Sage Business Cloud Accounting since Monday last week. Sars said on Friday that it was not a Sars issue and that taxpayers who were affected would be required to approach Sars for a remission of the penalty and submit the relevant motivation using the normal process in this regard, but that the waiving of interest would not be considered.