Resolving disputes with SARS often takes up an ever-increasing amount of a tax practitioner’s time. Help is at hand! This webinar provides practical, useful guidance on how to navigate the dispute resolution process without incurring substantial legal costs.

The webinar outlines, in understandable language and with a very practical focus, the correct steps to follow in resolving disputes with SARS.

The Tax Administration Act is very technical and specific and it is essential for every tax professional or business person responsible for managing tax risk, to understand the rules of the game and the process to be followed in resolving problems with SARS.

The course content will cover:

1. An overview of the dispute resolution process
2. Requests for reasons for an assessment
3. The various penalty provisions and the circumstances in which penalties can be waived or reduced The objection process
4. What to do when there is a problem with the objection process
5. The pay-now-argue-later principle and applying for a suspension of payment
6. The SARS complaints management office
7. When and how to use the Tax Ombud

After attending this webinar delegates will know:

1. The process to be followed in resolving disputes with SARS
2. How and when the various penalty provisions in the TAA will apply and the circumstances in which the penalties can
3. be reduced or waived
4. What to expect from SARS in the dispute resolution process and what action to take when SARS does not meet their
5. obligations