Earlier this month SARS sent out an invite to employers to attend workshops on the PAYE process. I thought it was a great idea, long overdue even.

So did lots of other people by the looks of things. Here's the start of SARS's latest advisory on the workshops:
Dear Employer

Due to the overwhelming interest in attending the SARS PAYE workshops to be held later this month, please be advised that all the workshops are already fully booked after we received more than 8 000 registration requests in three days!

We are enormously encouraged by the interest shown by employers, practitioners and other stakeholders in understanding the PAYE process and getting it right.
Yep - me too. However, it also indicates just how inadequate the information SARS gives us to use actually is. Either that, or the problems with meaningful communication with SARS...