Who's (Legally) Allowed to File Your Tax Return?

  Written by Vee   Posted 12 April 2020

Tax isn’t the easiest of subjects to navigate. Besides the long list of legalese to master, there’s the fact that tax legislation

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How does Pay-As-You-Earn (PAYE) work?

  Written by Marc   Posted 10 April 2020

You may have seen the word PAYE on your IRP5 payslip or heard it mentioned by your employer, but have no idea of its meaning.

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I worked for less than a year: Do I still need to submit a tax return?

  Written by Nicci   Posted 10 April 2020

If you worked for less than a year, you may be confused as to whether or not you are required to submit a tax return.

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Multiple Employers, Multiple PAYE payments. Yet I still owe SARS?

  Written by Nicci   Posted 9 April 2020

We receive many questions to our Helpdesk from taxpayers who are faced with the following scenario:

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Provisional Tax and Annuity Income

  Written by Nicci   Posted 2 April 2020

At the start of the 2021 tax year I will be earning a monthly income from my living annuity [LA], however as I understand from the provider of the LA, that tax will be deducted by them before I receive the monthly amount. I am registered as a provisional taxpayer and will be earning additional income on top of the LA income. So, I therefore assume that I can continue being a provisional taxpayer and declare the additional income only in the IRP6, or would I have to declare both incomes and then ...

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Structuring tax for a side businesses

  Written by Nicci   Posted 13 November 2019

I need some advice regarding how to structure my taxes and what ways I will be able to reduce my tax exposure through deductions, registering as a private Pty vs Sole proprietorship etc... I have a salaried job and am starting up a side business working from home as a web developer. I am also considering to start renting out our flatlet via Airbnb. The total income I am looking at includes (per month): 1) Salary: R70000 2) Airbnb: R3000 (which is a bit hard to estimate right now till we have built a track record, but this is assuming an average occupancy of 13%) 3) Web development: R5000...

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Tax on shares

  Written by Nicci   Posted 19 September 2019

I received a once-off payment for shares in November 2018. I then opted to pay tax on the shares before the payments was made to me. Therefore the tax was already deducted before any monies were paid to me. I am now uncertain how to enter this in my 2019 tax return. Can you please advise %u2013 do I need to submit this income in my 2019 tax return and if I must, what figures must I submit in terms of the share payment made to me in this tax year?

Corrected IRP5

  Written by Nicci   Posted 11 September 2019

My employer had to fix the tax period on my IRP5 and it has now been resubmitted to SARS. I would like to know if I am able to get TaxTim to reload this new IRP5 document for me? Also, please note that there are some amount changes as well which were made and this needs to reflect before I can agree to submit the final details. Is there perhaps a process whereby TaxTim can import the IRP5 before commencing to the submission state?

Earnings of a teacher and tax

  Written by Nicci   Posted 5 June 2019

I would like to find out if I should submit a tax return as a teacher that earns R300 000 per annum. Would this be required of me?

Tax allocation

  Written by Nicci   Posted 21 May 2019

Where does my tax money go to?

Two incomes and tax calculations

  Written by Nicci   Posted 20 May 2019

I am 51 years old and I receive a monthly taxable salary and a monthly pension. How do I calculate my tax on both incomes?

Backpay and bonus taxed in same way?

  Written by Nicci   Posted 17 May 2019

Can a bonus and an arbitration award backpay be added on one source code?

The employer added the arbitration award backpay for 2014 to 2017 august under one source code of bonus. What is the impact are the two taxed in the same way?

Top Questions on IRP5s

  Written by Nicci   Posted 9 May 2019

It’s that time of the year again and employers are issuing their employees IRP5s for the tax year. An IRP5 is a tax certificate which shows the total employment income that you earned for the tax year, the total employment related deductions that were taken from your income and paid over to either a retirement fund (pension, provident or retirement annuity fund) or a medical aid and the total tax  (PAYE, UIF and SDL) that you paid...

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Leave days and tax

  Written by Nicci   Posted 27 March 2019

How are the leave days calculated when an employee resigns from a company?

Business travel from home office

  Written by Nicci   Posted 12 March 2019

I work for a multi-national company and I am home based. I would like to find out, when I travel into the office for meetings, can I claim that mileage as business travel? Also, just for interest sake, would it be different if I was a salary earner and I did receive a travel allowance?

Tax when selling the shares

  Written by Nicci   Posted 17 February 2019

I previously received an opportunity to invest in shares through my company. I invested a portion of my income every month and every six months shares were purchased on my behalf at a 14% discount. The shares are US based and tax was deducted locally off my payslip. I would now like to sell off my shares, but I don't fully understand how I'd be liable for tax. We were able to sell them as soon as we had them. They were part of an ESPP (Employee Stock Purchase Plan) and were purchased by deduction from salary and taxed (nothing given out-right). On the platform, they do seem to be classified as short/long term but I think this is geared up for US rules of capital gains....

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Relocation expenses

  Written by Nicci   Posted 11 February 2019

I got a new job and the new company is paying me one month's salary as relocation allowance. I understand that this is taxed, but can I have any tax deductions if I can prove actual relocation expenses?

I still have source code 3697 and 3698 on my IRP5 for 2018

  Written by Marc   Posted 23 October 2018

Question: Where can I input source code 3697 or 3698 from my IRP5? I do not see a place for this anywhere?

Answer: Those codes are no longer applicable for 2018 IRP5s, if you have 3697 and 3698, add them together and include that total amount for source code 3699.

Why have I received a smaller tax refund from SARS this year?

  Written by Marc   Posted 23 July 2018

We receive many queries from confused taxpayers who are disappointed to see their tax refunds are smaller than the refund received last year.

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What to expect after submitting your tax return to SARS

  Written by Marc   Posted 23 June 2018

As soon as tax season opens in July, many taxpayers rush to submit their ITR12 tax returns as early as possible, eagerly hoping for a nice refund.

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Budget Speech: VAT rises by 1%, predictions were correct!

  Written by Nicci   Posted 21 February 2018

Taxpayers should breathe a sigh of relief as a much lower than expected R36bn in increased taxes was announced by the once-off Minister of Finance. The biggest news amongst the increases was the VAT rise of 1%. For the first time in 25 years, all South Africans will see most goods and services become a little bit more expensive thanks to the Value Added Tax rise. Although controversial, a VAT rise was much needed and will bring in almost R23...

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Bitcoin and Tax

  Written by Nicci   Posted 8 January 2018

Are the earnings from Bitcoin taxable?

No time to go to SARS

  Written by Nicci   Posted 20 July 2017

I cannot get the time to go to SARS, is there a service that you
offer to get my SARS eFilling account active and then also submitting my IRP5s?

SARS does not want to pay me the money it owes me.

  Written by Nicci   Posted 18 July 2017

Good day, SARS owes me money, had to go through the ombudsman to prove this, successfully did so however, SARS now requires that I prove that I actually did pay an amount I owed 2 years back before they refund me. My question is: is that even legally allowed/required of me or is it foul play from SARS? Thank you for your assistance

Difference between provident fund and retirement annuity?

  Written by Nicci   Posted 18 July 2017

There is no code 4006 on my IRP5, but I pay into a provident fund via my employer. There is an amount with code 4003/4473 (the same amount). Do I need to enter this amount anywhere?

This query relates to question 6806 "Do you have a %nextpass% Retirement Annuity Fund that you want to enter?" in the Retirement Annuity section.
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