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Can my mom claim if she pays for medical, but not tax registered?

  Written by Marc  

My mom is older than 65, she gets a pension of about R5500 monthly. She belongs to a medical aid that subtracts roughly 1850 a month. She is not registered for tax (I registered her on efiling, but SARS then removed her after we went to them. They said she dont need to be registered.). Seeing that she earns around R66 000 per year and the medical aid contributions are ± R22 000 yearly, and she has some out of pocket medical expenses as well, can she at all claim anything for the medical?

Tax deduction if I pay spouse's medical aid?

  Written by Marc  

I earn R8400 and pay R1536 monthly for my husbands medical aid. Can I deduct it monthly from my salary for tax purposes?What is a good percentage to pay for medical aid on your income?Thank you

How do you get a practitioner number and how many days do you have to receive it?

  Written by Marc  

Are you required to have a qualification to have it and if it does what are the requirements?

I have to send in my provisional tax information for the 1st time, have no clue, PLEASE help

  Written by Marc  

Need to submit provisional tax info. I am employed and have a business on the side. What info do I submit?

If I am a Sole Proprietor earning less than R59 750 for the tax year, am I a provisional taxpayer?

  Written by Marc  

I am a Sole Proprietor (offering consultancy services) who is earning less than R59 750 for the tax year. I'm not sure if I should be registered for Provisional Tax and filing IRP6s or not?

I've paid my provisional tax over to my accountant, what is the next step?

  Written by Marc  

So is he doing my tax return or must I do my own tax return?

How can I account for a lost laptop?

  Written by Marc  

I've just started up as a sole proprietor and would normally depreciate laptops etc over 3 years. However, this year I lost a laptop that was not insured, and had to replace it. Can I write off the full cost of the lost laptop in this year? If so, would this still fall under depreciation?

What tax do I pay, PAYE and UIF, to get a net of R6500

  Written by Marc  

PAYE
UIF
Tax

Moving to UK but still be paid by my company in SA, what is the process?

  Written by Marc  

I have a SA Company that is a Pty Ltd. We do various websites. We receive monies though debit orders from customers that list on the sites, all South African. My wife and I are both directors and the only employees.

We are thinking about moving to the UK and trying to find out who we would then pay tax to, SARS or UK on our salaries each month. We would be living there permanently with maybe a holiday each year to SA for a week or two.,

I have had conflicting answers to this question from SARS and HMRC and not to mention my accountant and a tax consultant that I called....



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Where must I claim tax back from?

  Written by Marc  

Where must I claim my tax and where can I get the IRP5?

I would just like to know about claims not covered by your scheme?

  Written by Marc  

I want to know, people say that SARS don't allow medical claims if its not on a prescription as from 2012 tax year. Is this true or can i still claim back my medical expenses that I bought over the counter. Other words my self medication (eg. panado's, rinex etc) that was not on a prescription from the doctor?

I am stuck on the provisional for 2013, what do I need to do?

  Written by Marc  

Apparently I have to submit a something by end of feb. I had a permanent job up until August 2012 and thereafter earned money as a sole prop. I dont know how to add the two together surely my ex employer should have submitted a doc for me because I was just PAYE even though I had a provisional tax number.

Unwanted ITR12?

  Written by Marc  

My application date was 2011-05-30, but for some reason they set my year of liability to 2011, so now I have an ITR12 for TaxPeriod: 2011, but I wasn't earning in that tax year. Should I just file an empty return (tick the "Were you unemployed for the full year ..." checkbox, or should I contact them and ask them to remove it?

How is PAYE tax calculated when employed by 2 separate employers?

  Written by Marc  

Is tax calculated individually per employer or combined?

Additional income, how do I show this on my tax return?

  Written by Marc  

I am a pensioner with a pension below the tax threshold. However I have additional income from a part time job. Must this amount be added to my pension (which is then taxable)? How do I calculate the PAYE that is then payable?

How to Calculate: Property Income tax?

  Written by Marc  

I want to know how to calculate the amount of tax that I need to pay SARS if I am renting out my property.
* I have a bond on the place that need to be paid back to a bank.
* Paying more on the bond than receiving rent.
* Paying levies on the place.
* Paying Property tax.
* Paying maintanace on the property.

How can I calculate what to pay SARS for the property income?

How is the Medical Aid Tax Benefit Calculated?

  Written by Marc  

I joined a medical aid during the tax year, which cost me R 2000 per month. I know that the medical aid tax benefit allowed is R 230 per month. Will I be allowed to claim 12 x R 230 = R 2760 for the year, or may I only claim (number of months that medical aid was paid) x R 230?

What is the difference between a Company vs CC for tax purposes?

  Written by Marc  

Kindly assist me. From a tax perspective, which is the better option to open, a company (Pty Ltd) or a CC?
Is it better to purchase a shelf company or CC or to register it self? (I'm aware that you can't register CC anymore) To amend all the details of shelf company to yours, won't it be more expensive at the end of the day?

ITSA Statement of account, what does it mean?

  Written by Marc  

I just want to know if alld admin penalties and outstanding amounts payable to SARS are included in this statement of account? Because I haved received a AP34 aswell.

Want to pay my provtax. From FNB Where do I do it?

  Written by Marc  

Where do I pay Prov via Internet?

Part-time accounts clerk - what are the tax implications?

  Written by Marc  

We just hired a junior accounts clerk to work 5 hours a day at R50/hour, 5 days a week. Hence, 100 hours a month.

I would like to know what the tax implications will be for this person due to the fact that he won't work full day. He is on 'probation' for at least 3 months with us.

I have queried a couple of people regarding the preparation of the agreement/contract whilst doing the research online. I am also currently finding how to categorise him on Pastel Payroll from Pa...



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If an employee earns less than R50 000/ R60 000 per annum, do they qualify for a income tax number?

  Written by Marc  

This question is required for work purposes including employees needing to register for income tax urgently.

If you stay out of country for 183 days, 60 days consecutive, can you apply for a NIL percent tax?

  Written by Marc  

A directive that no tax is being taken off from your salary? As far as I am aware the lowest percentage directive is 18%. This person only comes to SA for holidays. I was informed that there is a NIL directive but not according to SARS???

I need to find out what is my tax number?

  Written by Marc  

I need to sumbit my tax number to HR

Pay yourself a monthly salary or pay income tax on profits?

  Written by Marc  

My daughter has a internet buying and selling business. It is making good profits and she wants to know whether she should take those profits out as a regular monthly salary and pay PAYE or leave it as profit and pay income tax at the end of the year on it. She is operating as a sole proprietor from home.
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