{"id":698009,"date":"2023-06-22T09:33:49","date_gmt":"2023-06-22T07:33:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=698009"},"modified":"2023-06-22T09:36:58","modified_gmt":"2023-06-22T07:36:58","slug":"sars-is-upgrading-its-systems-heres-what-you-need-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/finance\/698009\/sars-is-upgrading-its-systems-heres-what-you-need-to-know\/","title":{"rendered":"SARS is upgrading its systems &#8211; here&#8217;s what you need to know"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The South African Revenue Service (SARS) is scheduled to upgrade its online systems on <strong>Friday, 23 June, between 18:00 to 23:00<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;During this time, you may experience<strong> intermittent service interruption<\/strong> on the eFiling platform,&#8221; SARS said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to SARS, the upgrades form part of the taxman&#8217;s strategic objective to provide streamlined digital online services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We are hard at work ensuring that our digital platforms and technology infrastructure are available, robust and secure by performing regular upgrades, enhancements, and maintenance,&#8221; said SARS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>SARS has embarked on a modernisation program called Vision 2024 with an overall goal to digitise the tax authority. Through digitisation, the revenue service aims to provide clarity and certainty, to make it easy for taxpayers and traders to comply with their obligations and to build public trust and confidence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>eFiling is an online platform that offers services for submitting returns, declarations, and conducting various interactions with the South African Revenue Service (SARS). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The service is available to taxpayers, tax practitioners, and businesses. It allows registered users to easily submit returns and declarations, make payments, and engage with SARS for tax-related matters, including taxes, duties, levies, and contributions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read: <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/finance\/697991\/sa-could-hit-reserve-banks-inflation-target-sooner-than-expected-economist\/\" target=\"_blank\">SA could hit Reserve Bank\u2019s inflation target sooner than expected: economist<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The South African Revenue Service (SARS) is scheduled to upgrade its online systems on Friday, 23 June, between 18:00 to 23:00. &#8220;During this time, you may experience intermittent service interruption on the eFiling platform,&#8221; SARS said. According to SARS, the upgrades form part of the taxman&#8217;s strategic objective to provide streamlined digital online services. &#8220;We<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":674015,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11121],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-698009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-finance","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698009","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=698009"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":698071,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698009\/revisions\/698071"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/674015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=698009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=698009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=698009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}