The South African Revenue Service (SARS) has announced that it will implement a new real-time monitoring system.

The Office of the Tax Ombud has released a report (PDF) this week on its investigations into allegations of eFiling profile hijacking happening in South Africa, revealing key details about how eFiling ...

The Office of the Tax Ombud (OTO) has raised alarm over growing cases of eFiling profile hijacking, warning that the scam poses a serious threat to taxpayer confidence in the South African Revenue ...

The South African Revenue Service (Sars) has officially discontinued the printing and posting of all system-generated letters, effective May 31, 2025. From this date forward, all Sars correspondence ...

E-filing profile hijacking occurs when criminals impersonate taxpayers, take control of their online accounts, file fraudulent tax returns and pocket the refunds. The Office of the Tax Ombud will ...

The Office of the Tax Ombud published the draft report on alleged eFiling Profile Hijacking for public comment on Wednesday. The report shows that eFiling hijacking is most prevalent among tax ...

In a joint statement issued on Friday, 26 September, SARS and the OTO responded to a recent Sowetan article highlighting an increase in cybercriminals targeting taxpayer profiles and resulting in ...

Many South African expatriates believe their tax obligations end after filing season closes. However, if your Sars profile still lists you as a resident, you could be liable for worldwide taxation.

The South African Revenue Service (SARS) and the Office of the Tax Ombud (OTO) have sought to calm growing public concern over the hijacking of taxpayer eFiling profiles, saying the integrity of the ...

According to the 2024/25 Annual Report of the OTO, almost 80% of the complaints it received from taxpayers related to service ...

The South African Revenue Service has released this week its own custom web browser for the sole purpose of re-enabling Adobe Flash Player support, rather than port its existing website from using ...

The South African Revenue Service ran into a big problem this month: Adobe Flash stopped working on January 12, 2021, and the agency (still) hadn't migrated all of its e-filing forms from Flash to ...