This practical one-hour webinar explains how the SARS Tax Compliance Status (TCS) functionality on eFiling works. Participants will learn how to review compliance profiles, identify and address non-compliance, request and use TCS PINs, challenge incorrect statuses and assist clients with common TCS issues efficiently and confidently.
The webinar provides a practical walkthrough of the Tax Compliance Status functionality on SARS eFiling, with emphasis on the areas that taxpayers and tax practitioners encounter most frequently. We will explore how to access and interpret the My Compliance Profile, understand the reasons behind a non-compliant status and determine what action is required to correct it. The session will also explain TCS requests and PINs, verification procedures, supporting documentation, challenges to an incorrect status and important considerations where taxpayers have multiple tax types.
Key Topics
• Understanding the SARS Tax Compliance Status (TCS) system
• Activating and accessing TCS functionality on eFiling
• Navigating My Compliance Profile
• Understanding the different compliance indicators
• Identifying why a taxpayer is reflected as non-compliant
• Practical steps to remedy non-compliance
• Challenging an incorrect Tax Compliance Status
• Requesting a Tax Compliance Status PIN
• Understanding how and when a TCS PIN is used
• Verifying another taxpayer's TCS
• Managing supporting documentation
• Understanding Approval International Transfer (AIT) requirements
• Ensuring multiple tax types and reference numbers are correctly linked
• Common TCS problems and practical troubleshooting
• Good practices for proactively managing a taxpayer's compliance profile.
• Tax practitioners and tax consultants
• Accountants and accounting officers
• Bookkeepers
• Financial managers and finance teams
• SARS eFiling administrators
• Business owners responsible for tax compliance
• Professionals assisting clients with TCS requests and SARS compliance
• Anyone who regularly needs to obtain, manage or verify a Tax Compliance Status PIN
