{"id":182509,"date":"2017-06-29T08:10:50","date_gmt":"2017-06-29T06:10:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=182509"},"modified":"2017-06-29T08:15:04","modified_gmt":"2017-06-29T06:15:04","slug":"sars-now-requires-an-in-branch-fingerprint-to-verify-details-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/finance\/182509\/sars-now-requires-an-in-branch-fingerprint-to-verify-details-report\/","title":{"rendered":"SARS will soon require an in-branch fingerprint to verify details: report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>South African taxpayers will soon have to\u00a0identify themselves in person at their local SARS branch, should any of their details registered with the agency have changed since their last filing.<\/p>\n<p>According to a report by <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.moneyweb.co.za\/mymoney\/moneyweb-tax\/new-taxpayer-verification-process-might-be-painful-but-necessary\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Moneyweb<\/a><\/strong>, taxpayers will have to bring\u00a0identification documents\u00a0and will be fingerprinted\u00a0so that SARS may verify whether their records correspond with that of the Department of Home Affairs.<\/p>\n<p>This will be a mandatory requirement for all changes, including personal details such as changes of address or contact numbers.<\/p>\n<p>Des Kruger, a member of the tax legal technical work group at the South African Institute of Tax Professionals (Sait), said the more stringent verification process was likely a result of increasing tax fraud.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The sad fact is that there is so much fraud that Sars was compelled to do something,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>While there is no set date as to when the verification process will officially come into effect, the decision to start verifying taxpayers comes at a busy time for SARS, with the 2017 tax season opening for individuals on 1 July.<\/p>\n<p>Those who use eFiling to submit their tax returns will be able to do so when tax season opens on Saturday, 1 July, while those who file their returns at South African Revenue Service (SARS) branches will be able to do so from 3 July onward.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/179863\/home-affairs-wants-to-start-collecting-and-selling-your-personal-data-and-charging-for-it\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Home Affairs wants to start collecting and selling your personal data \u2013 and charging for it<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South African taxpayers will soon have to\u00a0identify themselves in person at their local SARS branch, should any of their details registered with the agency have changed since their last filing.<\/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":[25,1847,3246],"class_list":["post-182509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-finance","tag-active","tag-moneyweb","tag-sars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182509","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=182509"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":182539,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182509\/revisions\/182539"}],"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=182509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}