Achieving our Vision of a smart, modern SARS with unquestionable integrity that is trusted and admired is of paramount importance. Pivotal to the delivery of our vision are our digital platforms and technology infrastructure. To provide clarity and certainty, make it easy for taxpayers and traders to comply with their obligations and building public trust and confidence, our technology assets must demonstrate the highest levels of availability, robustness and security.

In accordance with our Vision and Strategic Objectives, which include modernising our systems to provide Digital and Streamlined online services, we are hard at work ensuring that our digital platforms and technology infrastructure are available, robust and secure, by performing regular upgrades, enhancements and maintenance.

Considering the above, SARS Digital platform maintenance is scheduled for:

Saturday, 28 February 2026 from 04h00 to10h00 and 18h00 to 22h00.

During this time, you may experience intermittent service interruption on our eFiling, Tax and Customs Digital Platforms.

Arrival and exit management functions at land border posts will be impacted Saturday,28 February 2026 from 04h00 to 06h00.

Responses (CUSRES messages) to Customs declarations submitted on Saturday 28 February 2026 from 18h00 to 22h00 may be delayed, however, arrival and exit management functions will be available at land border posts for all released declarations and manifests.

Stakeholders are therefore urged to submit all Goods Declarations (bills of entry) and Road Manifest, especially those deemed priority, by Saturday, 28 February 2026 @ 17h00.

Achieving our Vision of a smart, modern SARS with unquestionable integrity that is trusted and admired is of paramount importance. Pivotal to the delivery of our vision are our digital platforms and technology infrastructure. To provide clarity and certainty, make it easy for taxpayers and traders to comply with their obligations and building public trust and confidence, our technology assets must demonstrate the highest levels of availability, robustness and security.

In accordance with our Vision and Strategic Objectives, which include modernising our systems to provide Digital and Streamlined online services, we are hard at work ensuring that our digital platforms and technology infrastructure are available, robust and secure, by performing regular upgrades, enhancements and maintenance.

Considering the above, SARS Digital platform maintenance is scheduled for:

Tuesday, 24 February 2026 from 20h00 to 23h30.

During this time, you may experience intermittent service interruption on our eFiling, Tax and Customs Digital Platforms.

Arrival and exit management functions will be available at land border posts for declarations and manifests.

Achieving our Vision of a smart, modern SARS with unquestionable integrity that is trusted and admired is of paramount importance. Pivotal to the delivery of our vision are our digital platforms and technology infrastructure. To provide clarity and certainty, make it easy for taxpayers and traders to comply with their obligations and building public trust and confidence, our technology assets must demonstrate the highest levels of availability, robustness and security.

In accordance with our Vision and Strategic Objectives, which include modernising our systems to provide Digital and Streamlined online services, we are hard at work ensuring that our digital platforms and technology infrastructure are available, robust and secure, by performing regular upgrades, enhancements and maintenance.

Considering the above, SARS Digital platform maintenance is scheduled for:

Friday, 20 February 2026 from 20h00 to 23h00. DONE

Saturday, 21 February 2026 from 18h00 to 20h00 DONE and 22h00 to 23h00 DONE.

Sunday, 22 February 2026 from 05h00 to08h00. DONE

During this time, you may experience intermittent service interruption on our eFiling, Tax and Customs Digital Platforms.

Responses (CUSRES messages) to Customs declarations submitted during this time may be delayed (on Saturday18h00 to 20h00 and Sunday 05h00 to 08h00), however, arrival and exit management functions will be available at land border posts for all released declarations and manifests on Saturday but not on Sunday 05h00 to 08h00.

Stakeholders are therefore urged to submit all Goods Declarations (bills of entry) and Road Manifest, especially those deemed priority, by Saturday, 21 February 2026 @ 17h00 and Sunday, 22 February 2026 @ 04h00

Note all EDI Messaging will be impacted on Sunday morning 05h00 to 08h00. It is recommended that AS2 message transmission be suspended until the EDI Bulletin Board is updated and confirmation to continue is provided.  AS3 will not be impacted to send but messages will not process.

Achieving our Vision of a smart, modern SARS with unquestionable integrity that is trusted and admired is of paramount importance. Pivotal to the delivery of our vision are our digital platforms and technology infrastructure. To provide clarity and certainty, make it easy for taxpayers and traders to comply with their obligations and building public trust and confidence, our technology assets must demonstrate the highest levels of availability, robustness and security.

In accordance with our Vision and Strategic Objectives, which include modernising our systems to provide Digital and Streamlined online services, we are hard at work ensuring that our digital platforms and technology infrastructure are available, robust and secure, by performing regular upgrades, enhancements and maintenance.

Considering the above, SARS Digital platform maintenance is scheduled for:

Friday, 13 February 2026 from 18h00 to23h00.

During this time, you may experience intermittent service interruption on our eFiling, Tax and Customs Digital Platforms.

Responses (CUSRES messages) to Customs declarations submitted during this time may be delayed, however, arrival and exit management functions will be available at land border posts for all released declarations and manifests.

Stakeholders are therefore urged to submit all Goods Declarations (bills of entry) and Road Manifest, especially those deemed priority, by Friday, 13 February 2026 @ 17h00.

Achieving our Vision of a smart, modern SARS with unquestionable integrity that is trusted and admired is of paramount importance. Pivotal to the delivery of our vision are our digital platforms and technology infrastructure. To provide clarity and certainty, make it easy for taxpayers and traders to comply with their obligations and building public trust and confidence, our technology assets must demonstrate the highest levels of availability, robustness and security.

In accordance with our Vision and Strategic Objectives, which include modernising our systems to provide Digital and Streamlined online services, we are hard at work ensuring that our digital platforms and technology infrastructure are available, robust and secure, by performing regular upgrades, enhancements and maintenance.

Considering the above, SARS Digital platform maintenance is scheduled for:

Saturday, 7 February 2026 from 05h00 to 07h00.

Saturday, 7 February 2026, from 18h00 to 21h00.

During this time, you may experience intermittent service interruption on our eFiling, Tax and Customs Digital Platforms.

Arrival and exit management functions will be available at land border posts for declarations and manifests.

Achieving our Vision of a smart, modern SARS with unquestionable integrity that is trusted and admired is of paramount importance. Pivotal to the delivery of our vision are our digital platforms and technology infrastructure. To provide clarity and certainty, make it easy for taxpayers and traders to comply with their obligations and building public trust and confidence, our technology assets must demonstrate the highest levels of availability, robustness and security.

In accordance with our Vision and Strategic Objectives, which include modernising our systems to provide Digital and Streamlined online services, we are hard at work ensuring that our digital platforms and technology infrastructure are available, robust and secure, by performing regular upgrades, enhancements and maintenance.

Considering the above, SARS Digital platform maintenance is scheduled for:

Thursday, 5 February 2026 from 18h00 to 20h00.

During this time, you may experience intermittent service interruption on our Customs Digital Platforms.

Responses (CUSRES messages) to transactions submitted during this time will be delayed, however, arrival and exit management functions will be available at land border posts for all released declarations and manifests.

Stakeholders are therefore urged to submit all Goods Declarations (bills of entry) and Road Manifest, especially those deemed priority, by Thursday, 5 February 2026 @ 17h00.

An issue is being experienced with some Customs Supporting Documents ID codes resulting in successfully submitted supporting documents not attaching to cases.

This will be evidenced by not receiving a CUSRES 33 confirming the attachment of the token-id as was received on the submission.

The issue is mainly related to the use of Document ID code “TRD”.

If this code was used, please resubmit supporting documents using another code as per the below list.

We apologise for any inconvenience caused.

Please use the codes as listed below until further notice while this is being addressed. We will advise once the issue has been addressed.

The NEW SARS EDI Bulletin Board is fully operational

Test Environment Status

• DPS (Declaration Processing System) Available

• CPS (Cargo Processing System) Available

• E@syFile (Supporting Documents) Available

Useful links:

SARS EDI Message Implementation Guidelines (MIGs)

Manual for Completion of Declarations

Customs Clearance Status Response Codes

RCG Code Lists

RCG Web Page

Supporting Document [E@sy-Doc/Scan/Packager] Utilities