South African Revenue Service (SARS) has decided to withdraw the option to make direct payments to it via its eFiling Web site, without additional authorisation.
SARS will, this month, phase out the payment facility via its eFiling system. The so-called “debit pull” facility allows SARS to collect outstanding tax from a taxpayer’s account and can be authorised by tax practitioners. Taxpayers will now have to use other methods of payment, such as credit push transactions, over-the-counter payments at a bank, electronic transfer using Internet banking, or payments at a SARS branch.
This has ostensibly been mooted as an attempt to combat fraud.
Source: IT Web