Our experienced team, efficient processes and streamlined approach allow us to deliver professional, compliant services while keeping our fees competitive. We focus on providing the right solution for your circumstances without compromising on quality, compliance or client service.
Our services are delivered by experienced tax professionals who ensure your affairs are regularised with SARS accurately, efficiently and in accordance with South African tax legislation.
Our fees reflect the complexity and scope of each matter. Straightforward SARS regularisation matters generally require less work than more complex cases involving international tax, exchange control, retirement fund withdrawals or historical tax matters.
We recommend starting with a Tax Diagnostic Report. This allows us to assess your current SARS profile, identify any compliance risks and recommend the most appropriate next steps based on your individual circumstances.
We prepare and submit your SARS application, assist with the required supporting documentation, correspond with SARS where required and guide the matter through to the successful issue of your SARS Notice of Non-Resident Tax Status.
SARS generally processes these applications within approximately 21 business days. Actual turnaround times may vary depending on SARS’ workload and whether additional information is requested.
Regularising your South African tax residency ensures that SARS’ records accurately reflect your tax status. This helps promote ongoing tax compliance, reduces the risk of future disputes and can assist when dealing with South African financial institutions, transferring funds abroad or managing your ongoing South African tax affairs.
Yes. If you have permanently ceased your South African tax residency, a SARS Notice of Non-Resident Tax Status provides official confirmation that SARS recognises you as a non-resident for South African tax purposes. It may also be required when transferring funds abroad or dealing with South African financial institutions.
If your South African tax number has been deactivated or deregistered, but you still need to submit tax returns, regularise your South African tax residency status with SARS or access funds in South Africa, you will first need to reactivate your tax number.
In most cases, yes. SARS generally requires objective evidence that you have relocated abroad and established your permanent home outside South Africa before recognising that your South African tax residency has ceased.
No. Ceasing your South African tax residency does not require you to dispose of your South African assets. You may continue to own property, investments, bank accounts, retirement products and other assets in South Africa while being recognised as a non-resident for South African tax purposes.
Yes. Becoming a non-resident for South African tax purposes does not prevent you from owning property in South Africa. Many non-residents continue to own residential or investment properties, although any South African-sourced income and future disposals may still have South African tax implications.
Ceasing your South African tax residency does not automatically end your South African tax filing obligations. Whether you are required to continue submitting tax returns depends on your individual circumstances and any ongoing South African tax obligations.
Not everyone is liable for exit tax. Whether exit tax applies depends on your individual circumstances and the assets you own when your South African tax residency ceases. We assess this as part of our advice and explain any tax implications before proceeding.
If you have permanently left South Africa and still have an active South African tax number, you should ensure that SARS’ records accurately reflect your South African tax residency status. Regularising your affairs with SARS helps ensure ongoing compliance and reduces the risk of future tax complications.
Once you are recognised as a non-resident for South African tax purposes, you are no longer regarded as a South African resident for exchange control purposes. As a result, the Single Discretionary Allowance is no longer available. Funds transferred from South Africa abroad must instead follow the non-resident transfer process, which generally requires SARS Approval for International Transfer (AIT).
No. The important legal question is whether you have ceased to be a South African tax resident under South African tax law. The priority is to ensure that your South African tax residency status is correctly regularised with SARS so that SARS’ records accurately reflect your circumstances.
