Quick Answer SARS Tax Debt: How Does a Payment Arrangement Work? A SARS payment arrangement lets you pay tax debt in monthly instalments instead of one amount. Apply on eFiling or at SARS with your affordability details. An approved, honoured arrangement stops most collection steps and can restore your Tax Compliance Status; defaulting cancels the protection immediately. What this means in plain language SARS prefers instalments to enforcement. While you honour an arrangement, collection pauses and your compliance status can recover – which is why arranging early beats hiding until the final demand. If the debt is genuinely unpayable, a separate process – the compromise of tax debt – can…