travelers and get cash before they arrive or depart to/from South Fly.

According to the tax authorities, the pilot will be tested on a voluntary basis in November, with the first appearance at King Shaka International Airport’s Durban hub.

SARS said that the law requires all visitors to declare certain assets and cash when entering or leaving South Africa. The process is aimed at bringing SARS into compliance with international standards and also in compliance with national laws that require anyone entering or leaving the Republic to declare any goods in their possession.

“The new system will allow travelers to pre-report purchased, received or purchased goods,” said SARS.

SARS believes that the pre-declaration process will allow travelers to move quickly and smoothly upon arrival, and departures will also benefit from a smooth boarding process.

Updates to ease boarding are part of the Internal Revenue Service’s customs modernization program and the creation of “smart borders” – leveraging data and technology.

SARS was quickly pushed to use the data to its advantage and enhance its ability to detect and respond to non-compliance.

He said these developments aim to “create a seamless experience for merchants and legitimate travelers at our points of entry while enhancing its detection capabilities to address any risk”.

“For travelers who choose not to use the online portal on their mobile devices, SARS will provide paper samples as well as self-service kiosks in our terminals.” Authorities added that some of their customs officers will have handheld devices to assist travelers and ease their passage.

According to SARS, failure to make a right assertion as required via way of means of regulation is an offence that may end result in:

• Detention;

• Forfeiture of the undeclared items and accompanying items;

• The imposition of an administrative penalty and/or;

• Criminal prosecution, relying at the seriousness of the offence.

Further trends to ease journey include, as said via way of means of SARS:

• Collaboration with airways to have get admission to to extra reassets of passenger records a good way to beautify our hazard profiling;

• Deploying technological gear including contemporary-day scanning system to automate the control and tracking of exchange and journey thru our borders;

• Implementing gear including the Single Window that may be utilized by authorities departments to simplify the submission of required declarations on the only hand, even as additionally improving statistics change among authorities organizations to lessen exchange and journey costs;

• Enhancing cooperation with different nations to allow computerized change of statistics to help the integrity of disclosures, which in flip consequences in quicker valid movement.

Edward Kieswetter the commissioner of SARS, expressed his self belief with the brand new gadget declaring that, like in different nations in which it is implemented, including the United States, New Zealand and Australia, it’ll help in retaining the integrity of the home financial system in addition to make a contribution closer to the integrity of the united states’s monetary gadget.

“All items which are added to the united states or taken out of the united states, ought to follow our legal guidelines and be well accounted for,” he added.

A complete listing of prohibited and confined items are to be had at the SARS website (www.sars.gov.za).