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WCO facilitates WCO Data Model training for SARS
SARS’ EDI and Customs Business Systems representatives with WCO Data Model facilitators Mr. Giandeo Mungroo (2nd from the left) and Ms. Sue Probert (2nd from the right) [Photo – SARS] Officials of the...
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SA Customs lends Detector Dog support to Mozambique
The SARS Customs Detector Dog Unit (DDU) recently deployed two trained detector dog handlers and dogs on foreign soil in Maputo, Mozambique. This forms part of a Customs co-operation agreement between...
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R12-million drug bust at OR Tambo Airport
SARS Customs intercepted a male traveller from Tanzania carrying narcotics worth over R12-million at OR Tambo International Airport yesterday (24 January 2016). The bust took place when the 36-year...
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WCO accredited Customs Modernization Advisors and Mercator Programme Advisors
The WCO, in its effort to assist Members with Strategic Planning activities and WTO TFA implementation held two back to back accreditation workshops in Pretoria, South Africa. These events were held...
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WCO Regional Workshop on Coordinated Border Management, Single Window and the...
The World Customs Organization (WCO), with the financial support of the Customs Administration of Saudi Arabia, successfully held a Regional Workshop on Coordinated Border Management (CBM), Single...
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BMA – to be first order of business when Parliment re-opens
A “Unified border guard and authority” will be one of the first orders of business when Parliament opens for the third quarter of the year. On the agenda for the portfolio committee on home affairs is...
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Red Flags hang over BMA
According to Eye Witness News, a draft law aimed at creating a new, overarching border control entity has run into problems. Parliament’s Home Affairs Portfolio Committee has been briefed on the Border...
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Davis Tax Committee pronounces on BMA
Recent speculation concerning the Border Management Agency Bill have brought about reaction from both within government and industry. While there appears widespread support for a unified agency to...
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SARS publishes updated EDI User Manual
SARS has been operating Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) with its external stakeholders since 2001. More than 98% of all customs declaration (CUSDEC) transactions are today submitted electronically to...
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SARS Management benefits from the WCO LMD Workshop
As part of its Capacity Building programme, the WCO organized a Leadership and Management Development (LMD) workshop from 14 until 25 November 2016 in Pretoria, South Africa. Nineteen middle managers...
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SARS publishes external NII Standard for Customs X-Ray Scanning operations
SARS offers non-intrusive inspection capability at 3 ports of entry and exit to the Republic of South Africa namely, Port of Durban, Port of Cape Town and Beit Bridge border post. These facilities are...
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Zim Revenue Scourge – porous borders lose millions
The Zimbabwe Herald suggests that Zimbabwe could be losing millions of dollars in unpaid taxes due to rampant smuggling of cigarettes into South Africa, investigations by this paper have...
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Belissima!
The South African Revenue Service (SARS) has seized a Ferrari that was smuggled into the country. The luxury vehicle worth an estimated R13.8m was stored at a warehouse in South Africa since 2014. In...
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Hamburg Süd becomes first fully electronic ‘Cargo Reporter’ in South Africa
Durban-based Hamburg Süd is the first shipping line – and the first South African Revenue Service (Sars) client – to be granted exemption from the requirement to submit paper manifests to local...
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SARS to implement online Registration and Licensing of Customs traders
SARS confirms that its new Customs Registration, Licensing and Accreditation (RLA) system will be implemented on 20 April 2020. The main objective of the rollout will be the introduction of the...
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