Just a reminder that next week Thursday is yet another provisional tax deadline…anyone needing to make a 3rd provisional tax payment must do it before then. SARS are no longer sending out forms or reminders so the onus is now fully on tax-payers. It also appears that the form is no longer a requirement and the easiest way to do the 3rd payment is on efiling under the “additonal payments” link…you can even get SARS to...

There seems to be quite a bit of confusion around provisional tax this year and more importantly who is liable to submit a return. SARS have adopted a new approach and are not automatically sending out returns any more and are rather leaving it up to tax payers to request the forms from SARS. In spite of this we have still received almost 70 emails notifying tax payers that they are liable to submit a provisional tax return – and the...

I had to make a trip to SARS in Cape Town this am to hand in the 6 paper provisional tax returns that I cant get on efiling – this is despite several email and telephonic requests to SARS to get them on e-filing. As I arrived there I was greeted by the site in the picture below… this is a many-hour queue (and it has been like this since November last year according to the SARS lady that helped me). Fortunately, I did not have to...