SARS Audit

[Veroland]

Make sure you bank details show as VALID on efiling... login and one of the side menus have a sub menu "maintain sars registered details".... click banking details and check there... most common problem at our firm...but SARS does not even notify you... otherwise...good luck..

I have a tax consultant that does my e-filing so I don't have the option to check the bank details.....

 

[derp90]

SARS audited my VAT return back in May. I submitted the supporting documentation, and they have still not responded, despite me following up and escalating twice.

Now my next VAT return was due, and they've audited it again. But they still haven't even looked at the first one I submitted.

Is this just going to keep happening with every VAT return I file? Is there anything I can do to speed things up?

 

[kabusi]

It can take a few years if you dispute the calculations when a claimed amount is not allowed..
I am awaiting the outcome of a dispute that was logged in 2020.
The cases were just closed each time they were submitted through efiling and now randomly this year got correspondence they looking at it.
After a dozen logged disputes trying to submit documentation and calls, emails and visits to a branch I gave up as it was not worth my time and did not want to open a can of worms.
Another 2 months in and no resolution.