Accounting (IFRS, etc) 

• Standards – What’s new? 

  • IFRS Monthly news summary 

• Accounting issues (from IFRS monthly summary) 

  • IFRS Foundation proposes updates to IFRS Accounting Taxonomy 2025: Proposed Update 1 General Improvements. 

  • IASB issues amendments clarifying the fair value option in IAS 28 

• Public Sector 

  • 2026/2027 Accounting Manuals for Departments (AMDs) issued for comment 

  • ASB: The Citizen's Guide: Understanding Government Financial Statements 

Auditing (IRBA, IAASB, etc): 

• Standards/Pronouncements:  

  • Proposed Revised SAAPS 3 Illustrative Reports 2026 

  • IRBA: Adoption of the IAASB's 2025 Handbook 

  • IRBA Adopts Narrow-Scope Amendments to IAASB Standards Arising from the IESBA's Using the Work of an External Expert Project 

• Legal/Ethics:  

  • Targeted Ethics Code Update on Firm Culture and Governance 

  • IESBA Snapshot: The Firm Culture and Governance Project 

• Other:  

  • Exposure Draft: Proposed Guide (Revised 20XX) for Registered Auditors: Assurance Engagements on the AFS and Annual Statutory Returns of a Medical Scheme 

  • New ISSA 5000 Materiality FAQs 

  • CAQ: Audit Committee Insights - June 2026 

CIPC: 

• Notices and Practice Notes issued (enforcement and to customers): 

  • Notice 30 of 2026: Mandatory use of the Case Management System 

  • Notice 28 of 2026: Non-Compliance with submission of the annual compliance checklist 

Anti-Money Laundering and FICA 

• FIC Advisory & Guidance:  

  • PCC 60 re format and manner of completion and submission of the 2026 RCR 

  • Draft Guidance Note 7B: Implementation of various aspects of FICA 

• Important issues: 

  • Outcomes of the June 2026 meeting of the FATF 

  • General Laws (AML and CTF) Amendment Bill 

Technology 

• Important issues: 

  • IESBA Snapshot: Ethics and Independence Approach to the Use of Technology  

  • AI's environmental cost soars as data centres consume more power than countries 

  • Eskom Launches 'Eskom Green' Targeting 32GW of Renewable Energy by 2040 

Labour Law: 

• Employment law: 

  • Provincial Chief Inspectors (PCIs) & Specialists 

  • Employment Services Amendment Bill (B16–2026) 

  • What employers must know about the new Employment Services Amendment Bill 

Other Laws & Regulations affecting your client AND impact on NOCLAR: 

• This month’s big 5: 

  • SAICA Legal Update 2026 Volume 21 Issue 10 covers new relevant National laws up to 29 May 2026: 

  • SAICA Legal Update 2026 Volume 21 Issue 11 covers new relevant National laws up to 12 Jun 2026: 

• Other acts and articles: 

  • Electronic Communications Amendment Bill 2026 

SARS: 

• Guides (new, updated & issued): 

  • Updated guide: Tax Directive functionality on eFiling 

  • New Guide to submit Global Minimum Tax (GMT) Returns on eFiling 

  • Updated Guide: SARS Payment Rules 

  • Updated: Guide on the Determination of Medical Tax Credits (Issue 18) 

  • Updated: Guide on Income Tax and the Individual (2025/26) 

  • VAT Reference Guide – Schools Exiting the VAT System 

  • Updated Guides for Filing Season 2026 

    • IT-AE-36-G05 – Comprehensive Guide to the ITR12 Income Tax Return for Individuals  

    • IT-GEN-06-G01 – Guide to the Individual ITR12 Return for Deceased and Insolvent Estates 

    • IT-AE-36-G06 – Guide to Submit Your Individual Income Tax Return via eFiling 

    • GEN-GEN-56-G01 – Submit Request for Reduced Assessment RRA01 via eFiling for Individuals 

    • GEN-PT-01-G01 – Guide for Provisional Tax 

    • IT-AE-45-G01 – Guide to SARS Mobile Tax Services 

    • IT-AE-49-G01 – Services offered via the SARS MobiApp 

    • IT-AE-46-G01 – How to submit your Individual Income Tax return via the SARS MobiApp 

• Binding Rulings (Private/Class/General) issued:  

  • Draft BGR – Filing date of a return in case of a company’s change in financial year and year of assessment 

• Notices and other publications issued: 

  • How to submit the EMP501 when the employee’s Income Tax number is not available 

  • FAQs for the Declaration of Foreign Registered Vehicles Used By Travellers – effective from 1 June 2026 

  • Implementation of the China’s Zero-Tariff Preference Scheme 

  • Tables of Interest Rates – Table 3 

  • 2026 Filing Season 

  • Media release: Nearly 39 000 Foreign Registered Vehicles already registered as SARS launches the process from 1 June 2026 

  • Global Minimum Tax Updates 

  • Customs – Traveller Processing 

  • Notice in terms of paragraph (c) of the definition of “living annuity” in section 1(1) 

  • Draft Regulations and Draft Explanatory Memorandum: Domestic Reverse Charge Relating to Valuable Metal issued in terms of section 74(2) of the Value-Added Tax Act 

  • 2026 Draft Rates and Monetary Amounts and Amendment of Revenue Laws Bill 

  • Average Exchange Rates 

  • Draft Notice under sections 18A (2B) and (2C) 

  • Changes for Filing Season 2026 

• High court cases: 

  • CSARS v Shabangu and Another (121282/2023) and CSARS v Shabangu NO and Others (121275/2023) [2026] ZAGPPHC (27 May 2026) 

  • Poseidon Operations (Pty) Ltd v CSARS and Others (23278/2022) [2026] ZAGPPHC 453 (29 April 2026) 

  • CSARS and Another v Alliance Fuel (Pty) Ltd (Leave to Appeal) (7453/2024) [2026] ZALMPPHC 43 (30 March 2026) 

  • WCF Hardware Distributors (Pty) Ltd v CSARS (2024/051127) [2026] ZAGPPHC 104 (10 February 2026) 

  • Afrinergy Holdings (Pty) Ltd v CCARS and Others (Review) (18187/2022) [2026] ZAGPPHC 105 (2 February 2026) 

  • Contract Packing Solutions CC v SARS and Others (2025/016340) [2026] ZAGPPHC 17 (16 January 2026) 

  • Williams NO and Another v eThekwini Municipality and Others (13624/2022P) [2026] ZAKZPHC (27 May 2026) 

• Constitutional cases: 

  • Lueven Metals (Pty) Ltd v CSARS (CCT 320/23) [2026] ZACC 24 (23 June 2026) 

Regulator news: 

• SAICA press releases and other publications: 

  • Submission on the ISA 540 (Revised) Post-Implementation Survey 

• CIBA press releases and other publications: 

  • Newsletters: 

    • CFO Talks (CFO Talks™ is devoted to sharing ideas and conversations between CFOs. It is a platform which facilitates insightful and powerful talks relevant to CFOs) https://cfotalks.com/  

    • Accounting Weekly (weekly newsletter) + Blogs https://accountingweekly.com/   

• Companies Tribunal:  

  • 13 Cases finalised in Jun 2026  

  • Extended Jurisdiction of the Companies Tribunal 

• Information Regulator:  

  • Enforcement Notices for contraventions of POPIA and PAIA by Public and Private Bodies 

• FASSET:  

  • Discretionary Grant 

• DoEL:  

  • 26th Commission for Employment Equity (CEE) Annual Report 2025/26 

• CAQ:  

  • Audit Insider - May 2026  

• SARB:  

  • SARB 2025/26 Annual Reports 

• OTO:  

  • Newsletter - Fair Play Edition 41 

• CGSO:  

  • Q1 Newsletter: March to May 2026 

• FSCA publications & press releases:  

  • 2026/27 Financial Education Plan (FEP) 

  • FSCA imposes administrative sanctions totalling R5.39 million on several Financial Services Providers 

  • FSCA provisionally withdraws the FSP licence of Mixirite (Pty) Ltd 

  • FSCA is investigating FXNovus (Pty) Ltd, Mr Paul Anthony Baise, Mr Ori Mishkal and Mr Clint Martin Reinertsen 

  • 14 Warnings issued against fraudulent FSPs 

• SARS:  

  • Latest Monthly Tax Digest – June edition 

  • Latest Tax Practitioner Newsletter – June 2026 

  • Latest Government Connect Newsletter – June 2026 

General Announcements / News Releases: 

• Media articles:  

  • High Court warning to homeowners in estates who use WhatsApp groups