Anchored to your own dates
These deadlines run from your company’s incorporation anniversary or financial year-end (FYE), so every organisation’s calendar looks different.
CIPC annual return
Within 30 business days after each anniversary of incorporation
Late filing attracts penalties; persistent failure leads to deregistration. Beneficial-ownership confirmation forms part of the filing.
Annual financial statements
Within 6 months after FYE
Whether audited, independently reviewed or compiled depends on your company’s category and public-interest score.
Company tax return (ITR14)
Within 12 months after FYE
Due even in dormant or loss-making years.
Provisional tax
6 months into the year of assessment; again by year-end; optional top-up about six months after
For February year-ends: end August, end February, and 30 September for the voluntary third payment.
NPO annual reports
Within 9 months after FYE
Registered non-profits file narrative and financial reports with the NPO Directorate to stay in good standing.
B-BBEE EME sworn affidavit
Every 12 months from the date of the last affidavit
An expired affidavit means clients cannot recognise your status in their own scorecards. Renew before it lapses.
Annual general meeting (public companies)
First within 18 months of incorporation; thereafter no more than 15 months apart
Private companies hold AGMs only if their MOI requires it, but annual shareholder decisions still need valid resolutions.
Fixed windows in the calendar year
These arrive on the same dates for everyone; the windows are announced by the authorities each year, so confirm the current year’s notice.
Employer annual reconciliation (EMP501)
Typically April to May
Full-year reconciliation of PAYE, UIF and SDL, with employee tax certificates.
Employer interim reconciliation
Typically September to October
Covers the half-year from March to August.
Workplace Skills Plan & Annual Training Report
30 April
Levy-paying employers registered with a SETA. Required to claim mandatory grants.
Employment equity reports
Season opens 1 September; online filings due 15 January
Designated employers only.
COIDA return of earnings
Annual window, usually opening around April
Filed with the Compensation Fund; keeps your letter of good standing valid. Watch the published deadline: it moves.
The monthly rhythm
EMP201: PAYE, UIF, SDL
By the 7th of the following month (or the last business day before it)
Monthly, without fail, for every employer.
VAT201
Per your VAT cycle; via eFiling, by the last business day of the month after the period
Applies only once registered as a VAT vendor.
No deadline, always current
The obligations that never appear on a calendar, and cause the most trouble when neglected.
Beneficial-ownership updates
Whenever ownership or control changes
Update the CIPC filing and your securities and beneficial-interest registers together, as one exercise.
Statutory registers & minute book
Continuously
Directors, members, interests, resolutions: the first documents any due-diligence, funder or dispute will ask for.
POPIA & PAIA
Continuously
Information Officer registered, privacy notices current, PAIA manual available, operator agreements in writing, and an annual review diarised.
Policy review cycle
At board-set intervals
A policy nobody has reviewed in three years is a risk-register entry, not a control.
The habit that makes the calendar work: diarise everything twice: the deadline itself, and a warning four weeks before it. Deadlines are rarely missed because they were unknown; they are missed because they were remembered too late.
Want this mapped to your organisation’s actual dates (incorporation anniversary, year-end, sector obligations) and maintained through the year? That is exactly what our retained company-secretarial support does.
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Deadlines are summarised in general terms as at July 2026. Filing windows announced by SARS, the Compensation Fund and other authorities can shift from year to year, and sector-specific obligations may add to this list. Always verify the current year’s notices. This page is general guidance, not legal or tax advice. Last reviewed: July 2026.
