A Tax Clearance certificate was a certificate issued annually to ensure that the tax payer is up to date with their tax payments.  It has been replaced with Tax Compliance status which is either compliant or not.

Tax compliance is the tax status of a company or individual which complies with the tax laws and regulations and accurately pays its tax on time.

Many institutions require tax compliance before they will consider doing business with your company.  It is the most basic of all tender requirements and your company will be disqualified from consideration if its tax status is not compliant.  This is to ensure that the company is legitimate and its taxes are up to date.

The Public Officer for a company is the person who is responsible for all matters relating to SARS and the company’s representative for SARS.  In May 2021, SARS introduced tighter measures for companies interacting with SARS and will no longer process any SARS services for companies with no Public Officer appointed.

SARS is the South Africa Revenue Service commonly known as the taxman, is our tax collection authority.  It is a government agency which is responsible for administrating the country’s  tax collection and administration.