Before entrusting someone with your tax affairs, check whether they are registered as a tax practitioner using the verification route linked from the SARS website.
The Tax Practitioners page includes a “Confirm Tax Practitioner Registration” link to the official eFiling lookup. It also directs taxpayers to information about recognised controlling bodies and reporting unprofessional conduct.
Start from the official SARS page and follow its registration-confirmation link. This guide identifies the verification route; it does not certify any individual practitioner’s status or assess the quality of their work.
If there is a conduct concern, the revenue service provides a separate reporting procedure using the RUC001 form. Its guidance covers concerns such as an unregistered person operating as a practitioner, unlawful or unprofessional conduct, and failure to act in a taxpayer’s lawful interests.
A complaint is investigated and is not an automatic finding against a practitioner. The guidance says additional information and evidence may be requested. For assistance, it lists the SARS Contact Centre on 0800 00 7277.
These existing official routes were checked on 9 November 2026. No registration query, complaint or personal-data submission was made for this report.
Illustrative archive photograph of a keyboard, mouse and notebook, taken on 7 February 2017. Not a SARS office, practitioner or taxpayer’s records. Photo: LUM3N/Pixabay via Wikimedia Commons, CC0. Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Workplace-2303851_1920.jpg . Rights: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ . Cropped and resized for display.
