Webinars On-Demand

Accounting (IFRS, etc) 

• Standards – What’s new? 

  • IFRS Monthly news summary 

    • March 2025 IFRS for SMEs Accounting Standard Update now available 

• Standards - Sustainability 

  • Amendments to Greenhouse Gas Emissions Disclosure (Amendments to IFRS S2) 

• Public Sector 

  • Departments Annual Reporting Guideline + specimen Annual Report   

  • Public Entities Annual Reporting Guideline + specimen Annual Report   

  • MCS for the 2025/2026 Financial Year 

Auditing (IRBA, IAASB, etc): 

• Standards:  

  • Proposed SAAPS3: Illustrative Reports 

• Legal/Ethics:  

  • Auditor Independence for Audits of Collective Investment Vehicles and Pension Funds 

• Other: Audit committees  

  • How the Banks Act Regulates Audit Committees in SA PART 2 

  • How King IV Regulates Audit Committees: Principles and Practices PART 3 

  • How the PFMA regulates Audit Committees in SA PART 4 

  • How Local Government Audit Committees Are Regulated in SA PART 5 

CIPC: 

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

  • Notice 13 of 2025: Company and CC re-instatements 

Anti-Money Laundering and FICA 

• FIC Advisory & Guidance:  

  • Draft Directive 3A and draft PCC 50A: Website notice – Call for comments 

  • Final updated Directive 3A and PCC 50A: International Funds Transfer Reports (IFTR) 

  • Urgent reminder: RMCP submissions 

  • GoAML Login Information 

  • UPDATED Draft PCC118A: Interpretation of Money or Value Transfer Services Providers 

Sustainability & Integrated Reporting 

• Important issues: 

  • IFAC: New Guide: "Why nature matters to accountants" 

  • SARB Consultation paper: Climate change policy and regulatory framework in the NPS 

  • SAICA: Sustainability Reporting Materiality FAQ Guide 2024 

Technology 

• Important issues: 

  • Technology & AI - in the workplace and beyond 

  • Excel Tips: Microsoft Forms 

  • Joint Standard 2 of 2024 - Cybersecurity and Cyber Resilience 

  • SARB Consultation paper: Cloud computing and offshoring of data in the NPS 

Labour Law: 

• Employment law: 

  • BCEA: Earnings Threshold increased 

  • UIF TERS Audit process issues 

• COIDA: 

  • Confirmation of Employer Registration Details form 

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

• This month’s big 5: 

  • SAICA Legal Update 2025 Volume 20 Issue 5 

• Other acts and articles: 

  • Sectional Titles Amendment Regulations 2025 

  • OHS: New Regulations gazetted 

  • Submission of PAIA annual reports to Information Regulator for 2024/2025 

  • NB info re PAIA Reports submission  

SARS: 

• Guides (new, updated & issued): 

  • Tax Exemption Guide for Public Benefit Organisations in South Africa (Issue 7) 

  • Capital Gains Tax Guides 

    • ABC of Capital Gains Tax for Individuals (Issue 13) 

    • ABC of Capital Gains Tax for Companies (Issue 11) 

  • Tax Practitioner guide on use of the SARS MobiApp 

  • Tax Exemption Guide for Institutions, Boards, or Bodies (Issue 2) 

  • Customs and Excise Act Guides 

    • Rebate Stores 

    • Customs and Excise Storage Warehouses (OS) 

    • Special Customs and Excise Storage Warehouses (SOS) 

  • PAYE Employer Reconciliation BRS for the 2026 tax year 

  • Quick Reference Guide on Anti-Dumping, Countervailing, and Safeguard Duties 

• Interpretation Notes (updated & issued): 

  • IN 59 (Issue 3) – Tax treatment of the receipt or accrual of government grants 

  • IN 45 (Issue 4) – Deduction of security expenditure 

  • Draft IN – Taxation of amounts received by or accrued to missionaries 

  • IN 137 – Recoupment of amounts deducted or set off when an asset commences to be held as trading stock 

  • IN 138 – Determining the calorific value of coal for purposes of the royalty 

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

  • VR 009 – Application of the zero rate to the services supplied directly in respect of investments located outside the Republic of South Africa and not listed on a South African Stock Exchange 

  • BPR 414 – Application of the proviso to section 8EA(3) 

  • BCR 092 – Application of the proviso to section 8EA(3) 

• Notices and other publications issued: 

  • SARS and CIPC Explaining the SMME Business Deregistration Process 

  • Donations Tax declaration form (IT144) 

  • Average Exchange Rates 

  • Revenue Laws Amendment Bill [B5—2025] 

  • Media release: SARS accepts the Revenue Estimate Set for the 2024/25 Fiscal Year 

  • 2026 Employees’ Tax deduction tables: Guides & Annexures 

  • Taxation Proposals 

  • 2025 Draft Rates and Monetary Amounts and Amendment of Revenue Laws Bill 

  • FAQ: Increase in the VAT Rate from 1 May 2025 

  • VAT Pocket guide on VAT increase on 1 May 2025 

  • 2025 Draft Rates and Monetary Amounts and Amendment of Revenue Laws Bill 

  • Appointment of a Corporate Entity as a trustee of a Trust and/or executor in a Deceased Estate 

  • Invoice details on customs declarations 

  • National Legislation: The following regulations have been promulgated: 

  • Employer Annual Declarations (EMP501): 1 April to 31 May 2025 

  • Employment Tax Incentive (ETI) changes with effect from 1 April 2025 

• Taxpayers must be on the lookout for New Scams: 

  • SARS Customs scam alert 

  • SARS letter of demand and summons 

• 1 Tax court case: 

  • SARSTC IT 45931 VAT 22285 {ADM) [2025] ZATC 2 (6 February 2025) 

• 8 High court cases: 

  • Cell C (Pty) Ltd v CSARS (30959/2019) [2025] ZAGPPHC 265 (17 March 2025) 

  • Biskit (Pty) Ltd v CSARS (6156/2023) [2025] ZAFSHC 71 (13 March 2025) 

  • CSARS v ASPASA NPC and Others (Leave to Appeal) (2023/099811) [2025] ZAGPPHC 223 (5 March 2025) 

  • Woods Warehousing (Pty) Ltd v CSARS and Others (2022/026798) [2025] ZAGPPHC 162 (14 February 2025) 

  • Naude v CSARS and Another (51712/2017) [2025] ZAGPPHC 152 (13 February 2025) 

  • Greyvensteyn and Other v CSARS and Others (B2495/2023) [2025] ZAGPPHC 128 (12 February 2025) 

  • FTTX and Energy Warehouse (Pty) Ltd v CSARS (2022/5522) [2025] ZAGPPHC 140 (31 January 2025) 

  • Sandbaken Boerdery (Pty) Ltd v CSARS and Another (053180/2022) [2025] ZAGPPHC 54 (21 January 2025) 

• 1 SCA case: 

  • Aveng Mining Shafts and Underground v CSARS (1192/2023) [2025] ZASCA 20 (17 March 2025) 

  • 2 Constitutional cases: 

  • CSARS and Another v Richards Bay Coal Terminal (Pty) Ltd (CCT 10423) [2025] ZACC 3 (31 March 2025) 

  • United Manganese of Kalahari (Pty) Limited v CSARS and four other cases (CCT 9423; CCT 9823; CCT 6623; CCT 7224; CCT 32023) [2025] ZACC 2 (31 March 2025) 

Regulator news: 

• IRBA News & press releases: 

  • IRBA 2024 Public Inspections Report 

    • Lettie to present PIR webinar on 14 May 2025 – BOOK NOW! 

    • Webinar on Professional Skepticism to be presented by LJ on 27 May 2025 

• SAICA press releases and other publications: 

  • 2025 Budget summary - Member analysis 

  • Comment Letter – IRBA Guide to Monetary Fines 

  • Driving Governance – Audit Committee Survey Results 

• CIBA press releases and other publications: 

  • Newsletters 

• CIPC:  

  • Launch of the study on the illicit trade in counterfeit goods 

  • CIPC Celebrates Young Innovators at the Inaugural IP Youth Awards 

• Companies Tribunal:  

  • 10 Cases finalised in Mar 2025  

• Information Regulator:  

  • Publication of the Sex offenders register 

• FSCA publications & press releases:  

  • Press Release: The biggest South African Public-Private initiative to combat financial crime 

  • FSCA releases Sustainable Finance Survey Report for the Investments Sector 

  • FSCA publishes complaints management review report on the banking sector 

  • FSCA takes regulatory action against Hernell Funerals (Pty) Ltd, Mr Shaun Andre Peterson and Mrs Carol-Ann Peterson 

  • FSCA publishes the Complaints Management Industry Review Report 

  • FSCA eNewsletter - 31 March 2025​ 

  • 5 Warnings issued against fraudulent FSPs 

• CGSO:  

  • Final Newsletter Q4 2024-25 

• OTO:  

  • Newsletter - Fair Play Issue 36 

• Master’s Office:  

  • Chief Master Directive 2 of 2025 Trusts: Implementing QR Code on Master's Appointment letters and Online Registration of Trusts 

  • Update: Issues with online Trust submissions 

• IVSC:  

  • eNews March 2025 

• National Treasury:  

  • National Treasury’s latest report (Q3 2024/25) 

• SARS:  

  • Latest Monthly Tax Digest – March 2025 edition 

  • Latest Tax Practitioner Newsletter – Issue 61 (March 2025)   

General Announcements / News Releases: 

• Media articles:  

  • Spaza shop registration drive ‘opens the door to bribes’ 

  • Where Were the Accountants? PwC Fined – But the Audit Failures Start with Poor Financial Reporting 

  • Is the VAT increase going ahead on 1 May 2025?