Written by Marc
Posted 18 November 2014
Written by Marc
Posted 18 November 2014
Written by Marc
Posted 18 November 2014
I work for a cruise ship company and receive a monthly salary. I have been outside of SA for over 183 days and 60 days consecutively. I do not get an IRP5 from them. I understand that I will be exempt from taxes under s10 (1)(o). I am however uncertain where to document this in my ITR12. Do I document the entire amount under "amounts considered non taxable" under the heading exempt amount? Or do I work out the exempt amount according to the number of days I was abroad? The form also has a sectio...
Written by Marc
Posted 17 November 2014
Written by Marc
Posted 17 November 2014
Written by Marc
Posted 17 November 2014
I don't live in South Africa anymore but I did contribute to a medical aid last year for 5 months. Plus I have an investment that has earned interest. I never earned any other income in South Africa, only in the country that I live in now. If I want to file my tax return I would only need to fill in the medical aid contributions and my local interest. On the first page of my tax return it does not allow me to create a form where both medical aid contributions and local interest appears. If ...
Written by Marc
Posted 17 November 2014
Written by Marc
Posted 17 November 2014
Written by Marc
Posted 17 November 2014
Written by Marc
Posted 17 November 2014
Written by Marc
Posted 17 November 2014
Hi TaxTim,
I have submitted my tax return for this season and I am owed a refund by SARS.
I have never filled in my banking details before as have only been working for 1.5 years now. Must one always go into a SARS office to register bank details if one hasn't been asked? Or can I simply do it on efiling and only if they request me to go in, then I should?
Finally, if I am required to take all the banking documentation into a SARS office, can I do it when tax season is over? Or must I do it before the 21st of November? ...
Written by Marc
Posted 16 November 2014
Hi TaxTim,I had my tax return done by a tax practitioner who informed me that I neeeded to submit all documents again after he submitted everything for the first time. After some time I called sars to find out what the progress was and they told me it was all done and sorted, just now I had to wait an additional 30-90 days until sars would pay my tax return. Is this common? Last year I did not have to submit again and received my return after 5 days. Also, will the sum of the first assessment s...
Written by Marc
Posted 15 November 2014
Written by Marc
Posted 15 November 2014
Written by Marc
Posted 14 November 2014
Hi TaxTim,
This year was my first year of employment and as such I registered for tax. Additionally, I only received a salary for two months during the tax year (January and February). I therefore fall below the tax threshold and should receive a refund of the PAYE that was paid.
I am busy trying to register on e-Filing in order to submit my tax return on time (before the deadline of 21 November 2014). SARS has however requested that I go to the SARS branch to verify my banking details in order to successfully register me on e-Filing....
Written by Marc
Posted 14 November 2014
On my IT 3(b) I have for SARS source code 4112 (Foreign withholding tax on dividends) an amount of -R 68.93.But eFiling does not allow me to enter a negative value for SAR source code 4112When I posed this question to 2 of my investment institutions, I got 2 different answers.The 1 said:Make it a positive value and the other said:The tax in question is one that has already been deducted by the foreign constituent in the country of origin(appears as a negative value), it should therefore not be d...
Written by Marc
Posted 14 November 2014
Written by Marc
Posted 14 November 2014
Written by Marc
Posted 14 November 2014
Written by Marc
Posted 14 November 2014
Written by Marc
Posted 13 November 2014
Written by Marc
Posted 13 November 2014
I am a South African citizen who has been living overseas for several years. I left South Africa before registering for a Tax File Number and I have never lodged a return there. I have been working overseas and paying tax over here to the tax office. My question is, should I have been lodging tax returns in South Africa for all these years? Are there penalties or fines for not lodging a tax return for all this time in my case or will I be able to go through the 'formal emigration' proc...
Written by Marc
Posted 12 November 2014
I've did some freelance web design and development in the last tax year and so now have to declare it on eFiling. No IRP5's or anything formal like that, so I've added it under Local Business, Trade and Professional Income. My problem is that I don't know what source code to use. eFiling gives a pop-up that allows you to select something, but nothing relates to website development (I'm not even sure what Trade Section to use). The list of source codes on SARS website also turned up nothing.
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Written by Marc
Posted 12 November 2014
Written by Marc
Posted 12 November 2014