On 19 June 2019, the South African Revenue Service (Sars) Executive: Customs & Excise Centre of Excellence (Acting) issued a letter to external stakeholders titled, ‘Update on the New Customs Acts Programme (NCAP) - Declaration Processing System (DPS)’.
The previous correspondence to external stakeholders was on 01 March 2019, more than three months ago.
“In previous engagements with Trade, Sars communicated its intention to roll out new declaration types (provisional, incomplete and supplementary declarations - also known as the two-step process), as well as simplified declarations. In March 2019, a communication was issued advising Trade of the postponement of the pilot. This was to allow for related processes and amendments to the enabling legislation to be completed. Currently, Sars is focusing its attention on ensuring that the new declaration types are successfully finalised for the effective use by traders. This concerted effort at ensuring the successful development of the new declaration types has had an inadvertent impact on the release of simplified declarations which was earmarked for mid-2019. Further communication on these implementations will be issued in due course. Thank you for your continued co-operation throughout this phased implementation of the NCAP.”
Story by: Riaan de Lange