# South Africa's Tax Authority Plans to Audit Roughly Six Million Crypto Users

The revenue service signals a shift from warnings to mass enforcement as on-chain and exchange data make holders easier to identify.

- Published: 2026-07-05T10:32:37.070Z
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The South African Revenue Service (SARS) plans to audit around six million crypto users, according to a report circulated by Cointelegraph. The scale of the stated effort marks a move from general compliance warnings toward direct examinati…

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