South Africa: Tax News

South Africa: Tax News

SARS has confirmed that they are currently experiencing a software issue regarding the EMP201 declared liabilities not pre-populating on the EMP501 return.

SARS has communicated this issue as critical and will be releasing a fix by early next week.

Details of the issue:
When trying to submit the EMP501, ERROR 0001 occurs indicating that no EMP201 returns were submitted for the reconciliation period. This error occurs regardless the submission of the EMP201 returns.

SARS response:
Employers are advised that, if they have submitted the monthly returns and are experiencing the error, to please refrain from submitting until next week, after such fixes have been deployed by SARS. 

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