28.  Statement concerning accounts

 

(1)     SARS may require a person who submits financial statements or accounts prepared by another person in support of that person’s submitted return, to submit a certificate or statement by the other person setting out the details of-

 

(a)     the extent of the other person’s examination of the books of account and of the documents from which the books of account were written up; and

 

(b)     whether or not the entries in those books and documents disclose the true nature of the transactions, receipts, accruals, payments or debits in so far as may be ascertained by that examination.

 

(2)     A person who prepares financial statements or accounts for another person must, at the request of that other person, submit to that other person a copy of the certificate or statement referred to in subsection (1).