Tag Archives: SARS

The PAYE Dangers for Multiple Income Streams

Multiple Income Streams? The PAYE Dangers and a New Option for Pensioners

A nightmare situation for many South African taxpayers is discovering after their year-end tax assessment that the PAYE they paid on various income streams during the year was not enough. The result is a substantial tax debt, which can often not be settled in time to prevent hefty late payment penalties and interest. To avoid […]

Complaints Against SARS

The Top 10 Complaints About SARS: What You Can Do to Protect Your Rights

“… the OTO commits to continue doing everything possible to ensure that taxpayers are not forced to pay a cent more than what is required.” (Judge Bernard Makgabo Ngoepe, the Tax Ombud) The list of the top 10 complaints made against SARS over the last eight years to the Office of the Tax Ombud (OTO), […]

giving implications to your tax

‘Tis the Season for Giving but Beware the Taxman!

 “Think of giving not as a duty but as a privilege.” (John D. Rockefeller Jr.) Christmas is a time for giving, and in our local business environment, as well as in many other markets around the world, it may even be unofficially expected of companies to give generously to their employees, to their clients and […]

Tax Deadline for the month

Festive Season Cybercrime Alert: Tips from SARS

“Cyber Attack: An attack, via cyberspace, targeting an enterprise’s use of cyberspace for the purpose of disrupting, disabling, destroying, or maliciously controlling a computing environment/infrastructure; or destroying the integrity of the data or stealing controlled information.” (CSRC – Computer Security Resource Center) South African businesses, already facing significant risk of cyberattacks, have been warned to […]

Tax Deadlines

Your Tax Deadlines for December 2021

2 December – Extended filing season deadline for non-provisional individual taxpayers (originally 23 November 2021) 7 December – Monthly Pay-As-You-Earn (PAYE) submissions and payments 24 December – Value-Added Tax (VAT) manual submissions and payments 30 December – Excise Duty payments 31 December – Corporate Income Tax (CIT) Provisional Tax payments where applicable 31 December – […]

Auto-Assessed Taxpayers

What Auto-Assessed Taxpayers Must Know as the November Deadline Looms

“The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax” (Albert Einstein) A year after the first mass auto-assessments were issued by SARS in 2020, many more taxpayers are facing the 2021 tax season deadline of 23 November – just days away! Read on to find out what has changed since last year, […]

Letter of Demand from SARS

Letter of Demand from SARS? Handle With Care!

“A senior SARS official may authorise the issue of a notice to a person who holds or owes or will hold or owe any money, including a pension, salary, wage or other remuneration, for or to a taxpayer, requiring the person to pay the money to SARS in satisfaction of the taxpayer’s outstanding tax debt” […]

Freelancing and Tax Compliance in South Africa

Freelancing and Tax Compliance in South Africa: Why it’s your company’s problem

Businesses must heed the importance of Freelancing and tax compliance. That’s because both have a shared interest in ensuring freelancers are fully compliant with SARS For so many businesses, the murky waters of freelancing and tax compliance are almost unnavigable. And answers to questions are hard to find. For example, with whom does the tax liability […]