A serious determine inside SARS has apologised for the quantity of confusion attributable to the announcement that they might be implementing a brand new Traveller Declaration system.
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SARS made an announcement on 12 August that they might be implementing this new on-line system. The written apology got here from Mark Kingon, head stakeholder in relations integrity and anti-corruption at SARS.
Within the letter to the Southern Africa Tourism Providers Affiliation (SATSA), Kingon wrote: ‘I wish to sincerely apologise for the confusion triggered as a result of publication final week on the SARS web site and the following media experiences and queries this has resulted in, particularly out of your members.’
There may be nonetheless no readability on what this declaration system will entail, however SATSA CEO David Frost revealed SARS wrote to him noting that: ‘[It] will allow travellers who’re getting into or leaving South Africa to register a traveller profile, pre-declare items bought, acquired or in any other case acquired, and to pay any relevant duties and taxes via the net web-based platform,’ Tourism Replace reported.
‘The implementation of the digitised traveller administration system serves as one of many main pillars to enhance compliance and to encourage travellers to maneuver in the direction of SARS’ strategic try of voluntary compliance. The system will likely be secure, safe and can function an environment friendly record-keeping instrument of traveller info,’ the letter from SARS learn.
SARS will likely be making additional bulletins, IOL reported, which might hopefully make clear the declaration.
‘The journey move is a single element in a response by the entire of presidency to enhance the integrity of our monetary flows, and to enhance our capability to detect illicit flows and to implement our legal guidelines and rules,’ SARS commissioner, Edward Kieswetter stated.
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