{"id":125993,"date":"2016-06-07T10:20:22","date_gmt":"2016-06-07T08:20:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=125993"},"modified":"2016-06-07T10:20:22","modified_gmt":"2016-06-07T08:20:22","slug":"beware-this-tax-scam-in-sa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/finance\/125993\/beware-this-tax-scam-in-sa\/","title":{"rendered":"Beware this tax scam in SA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The South African Revenue Service (SARS) says it has noted a few incidents of scam artists that pretend to be representatives from the service that have approached unsuspecting small businesses enterprises to demand \u2018outstanding payments\u2019 on undeclared taxes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Over the last few months, there has been a few incidents that have been reported to SARS of scam artists that have demanded money to wipe off debts.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Taxpayers and traders with outstanding accounts must directly resolve the matter with SARS,&#8221; the agency said.<\/p>\n<p>All outstanding tax, VAT or duties must only be deposited directly into SARS bank accounts, it said.<\/p>\n<p>SARS stressed that no money should be paid over to debt collectors or self-proclaimed SARS officials. &#8220;In fact, collectors who want money to be handed over to them must be immediately reported.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on tax in SA<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/lifestyle\/125587\/beware-this-new-hijacking-scam-in-sa\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Beware this new hijacking scam in SA<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/123879\/beware-of-this-new-big-money-scam\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Beware of this new big money scam<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/banking\/108073\/this-banking-scam-is-on-the-rise-in-south-africa\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Beware this banking scam on the rise in South Africa<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SARS says it has noted a few incidents of scam artists that pretend to be representatives from the service that have approached unsuspecting small businesses enterprises to demand \u2018outstanding payments\u2019 on undeclared taxes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":32548,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11121],"tags":[25,3246],"class_list":["post-125993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-finance","tag-active","tag-sars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125993"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":125995,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125993\/revisions\/125995"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}