SARS gets tough on export rules

SA REVENUE Services (SARS) has tightened up its rules on retrospective certificates for exports from SA, warns the latest HellmannÕs newsletter.
A release from Customs & Excise warns that they will no longer approve retrospective certificates for trivial circumstances.
And it lists amongst these pieces of now-unacceptable trivia: "Quantity and value not determined at the time of export"; "Client unaware of the certificates"; "Seal and container number could not be obtained"; "Goods not manufactured on time"; "Power failure".
Exporters are going to have to have their DA 550 and EUR certificates passed in advance or no exporting, according to Customs.
For those who have changes in the details on their bills - differences in weight or value, for example - the authorities indicate that the DA 554 voucher of correction is available.
This, together with your processed EUR certificate should then be passed to correct these details.
And this must be done before the goods leave the shores of SA.