Legal and Policy - 21 April 2022

SARS:

• 20 April 2022 – Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) please note the changes stated in the Tax Directives Interface Specification (IBIR-006 Rev 6.303) will go-live on 25 April 2022. No Directive files should be submitted after 15:00 on 22 April 2022. Applications can be submitted from 25 April 2022.
• 19 April 2022 – SARS anti-fraud leaflet: Protect your profile
• 19 April 2022 – Updated document: Registration Licensing and Designation – External Policy

The facility codes used in Box 30 on the Customs Clearance Declaration (CCD) have been updated to include the licensing of a new container depot in Cape Town. If the applicable facility codes listed in SC-CF-19-A02 is not inserted in Box 30 on the CCD, Customs will not be able to transmit electronic messages to the licensed facility in terms of the status of the consignment and the CCD will be rejected.

• 19 April 2022 – Customs & Excise Act, 1964: Publication details for tariff amendment notices R2030, as published in Government Gazette 46248 on 19 April 2022, are now available
• 18 April 2022 – Customs & Excise Act, 1964: The tariff amendment notice, scheduled for publication in the Government Gazette, relates to the amendments to –
• Part 1 of Schedule No. 2, in order to amend the anti-dumping duties imposed on the species, Gallus Domesticus, originating in or imported from the Netherlands, in order to include Pluimveeslachterij C van Miert BV, Pluimveeslachterij Mieki Hunsel BV and Frisia Foods BV on the list of companies exempted from paying the duties – Minute 13/2022 addendum to ITAC Report 666 (with retrospective effect from 23 August 2021).

Publication details will be made available later

• 14 April 2022 – New scam: SARS eFiling notification
• 14 April 2022 – RFP50/2021: Provision of Fleet Management Services for a Period of Five (5) Years
• 14 April 2022 – SARS wishes to clarify the process to deal with the licensed warehousing for the marking of imported unmarked illuminating kerosene / specified aliphatic hydrocarbon solvents (AHS). See our letter to Trade here.
• 14 April 2022 – Customs & Excise Act, 1964: Publication details for tariff amendment notices R2010, R2011 and R2012, as published in Government Gazette 46224 on 14 April 2022, are now available

NATIONAL TREASURY:

• Infrastructure Planning and Appraisal Guideline – 14 April 2022
• Guideline for Budget Submissions for Large Strategic Infrastructure Proposals – 14 April 2021

OECD:

• Register: Public consultation meeting on the Implementation Framework of the global minimum tax - 25 April 2022
• Release of Revenue Statistics in Latin America and the Caribbean 2022 on Wednesday, 27 April 2022 - 20 April 2022
• OECD invites public input on extractives exclusion under Amount A of Pillar One - 14 April 2022
• Making tax dispute resolution more effective: New peer review assessments - 14 April 2022
• OECD and Brazil work together to align Brazil's transfer pricing rules to international standard - 13 April 2022
• Public comments received on the Implementation Framework of the global minimum tax - 13 April 2022

ATAF:

• Why tax auditors play crucial role to tax administrations – 20 April 2022
• Taxpayer registration base in Kenya expands with customised technical assistance – 14 April 2022