LETTER OF FINAL DEMAND – STOP SARS IN THEIR TRACKS

The South African Revenue Service (SARS) is intensifying its efforts to recover outstanding tax debt, using aggressive collection methods such as bank account deductions, salary garnishments, and even threatening personal liability for company directors and representatives. If you’ve received a Letter of Final Demand from SARS, you still have legal options. It’s critical to act quickly and partner with a specialist SARS engagement team to protect your rights, prevent collections, and implement a custom SARS tax debt solution that resolves your matter efficiently and legally.

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KNOW YOUR LEGAL RIGHTS WHEN FACING A SARS LETTER OF DEMAND!

Have you received a SARS Final Demand Letter and don’t have the funds to settle your tax debt? You are not alone and you have legal rights as a taxpayer.

Before SARS initiates collections or legal action, it’s crucial to understand the legal remedies available to you. There are formal steps you can take to suspend SARS’ collection process, protect your assets, and explore tax debt relief options.

What You Need to Know About the SARS Suspension of Payment:

The SARS Suspension of Payment is a powerful legal remedy that temporarily halts all collection actions by SARS, giving you time to get your finances and supporting documentation in order without the risk of asset seizure or enforced payment.

Key Facts:

There must be a dispute or an intention to dispute.
The suspension is effective immediately upon submission to SARS.
SARS cannot take legal collection action while the suspension is active.
If SARS declines or revokes the suspension, you’re still protected for an additional 10 business days.
This window is crucial for taxpayers to seek professional assistance and submit supporting legal arguments or objections.
Unfortunately, many taxpayers remain unaware of the financial risks and legal implications of a SARS tax debt. It’s essential to understand how tax debt arises, how SARS calculates it, and how in some cases, the amount you owe can be reduced legally through the proper channels.

At Tax Consulting South Africa, we don’t believe in one-size-fits-all solutions. Our dedicated team of tax attorneys and legal experts craft bespoke strategies tailored to your unique situation always ensuring legal professional privilege during all tax debt negotiations and SARS interactions.

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Our specialist tax debt relief team is comprised of both tax attorneys and chartered accountants, to ensure the legally correct and most beneficial compliance solution is created for each and every client. We ensure legal professional privilege in all SARS debt relief negotiations, focusing on more complex and high value tax debt engagements with SARS. To ensure the benefit of our services outweigh the professional costs, we do not engage on matters where the tax debt owed to SARS is under R150 000,00.

The Compromise of Tax Debt application (“the Compromise”) is aimed at aiding taxpayers to reduce their tax liability by means of a Compromise Agreement (“the Agreement”), which is entered into with SARS.

Where SARS is approached correctly, a tax debt can be reduced, and the balance paid off in terms of the Compromise.

The effect of entering into a Compromise greatly reduces the tax liability to an affordable amount, while granting a much-needed reprieve, and so aids taxpayers on the road to financial recovery.

Once the Compromise is accepted by SARS, and the agreement duly executed, with payment being made as proposed by the taxpayer, the balance of the liability due to SARS is written-off by the revenue authority.

As evidenced in recent months, and in light of the on-going COVID-19 pandemic, our insight in the market has noted SARS upping its collection power to offset a massive budget deficit. Their aggressive collection steps include salary garnishees, Sheriff callouts and even taking money directly from businesses and/or personal accounts.

Now is not the time to take risks. SARS’ approach clearly shows we are dealing with a competent revenue authority, so why risk it when you can Compromise it!

Our multidisciplinary team of tax attorneys and chartered accountants have a proven track record of negotiating with SARS and have assisted many companies to successfully apply for a deferred payment arrangement. We guarantee legal professional privilege on your matter and follow a strict legal and compliant approach with solution-based thinking.

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MEET THE TEAM

Andre Daniels
Head of Tax Controversy & Dispute Resolution
Admitted Attorney, LLB

Jashwin Baijoo
Associate Director
Head of Strategic Engagement & Compliance
Admitted Attorney, LLB, LLM (Tax)
Master Tax Practitioner (SAIT)
Professional Tax Specialist (SA)
SAIPA Tax Committee Member