SARSPAYE BRS: PROPOSED CHANGES TO THE ITREGTAX CERTIFICATE REQUIREMENTS – AN UPDATE

As communicated to you in PAGSA Newsflash 2024-40, during the last quarter of 2024 SARS initiated meetings with the PAGSA to discuss the difficulties that they have experienced with the ITREG income tax registration process, and to put forward a high-level proposal to correct the problems.

These discussions continued during the first few months of 2025.

SARS have since informed the PAGSA that the ITREG changes have been postponed for 6 months.

This indicates that the ITREG project might be taken forward at the time of the Interim Tax certificate submissions in September 2025, but a firm date has not been given.

It would be best to treat this Newsflash as a ‘heads-up’ to make you aware that your payroll systems might have to be changed to accommodate the new requirements, and to allocate some time in your 2025 system development planning for this.