“If we can win the Rugby World Cup three times, surely it is not asking too much of this country to take the High Road twice when its future is on the line? ...

“The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax”   (Albert Einstein) Provisional taxpayers using eFiling need to have completed and submitted...

7 January – Monthly PAYE submissions and payments 24 January – VAT manual submissions and payments 30 January – Excise Duty payments 31 January – VAT electro...

4 December - Tax Season 2019 eFiling closes for Individuals (if you are a provisional taxpayer, you have until end January 2020 to submit your tax return) 6 ...

Deadlines this month are – 7 November – Monthly PAYE submissions and payments 25 November – VAT manual submissions and payments 29 November – Excise Duty pay...

Until last year taxpayers had to accrue interest owed to them by SARS. This proved difficult for taxpayers as SARS can take a few years to refund the interes...

Deadlines this month are – 7 October – Monthly PAYE submissions and payments 25 October – VAT manual submissions and payments 30 October – Excise Duty paymen...

“Forewarned is forearmed” (Wise old saying) SARS is having trouble meeting its revenue targets and this is clearly putting enormous pressure on the South Afr...

Your third provisional payment for the 2018/2019 tax year is due on or by 30 September 2019. This payment is voluntary, and you only need to make it if you h...

This form is designed so that employers can easily reconcile their payroll taxes (PAYE, UIF and SDL). These taxes have proved difficult to reconcile and this...

Individual provisional taxpayers need to submit their first provisional form and payment by or on 30 August. Companies with year ends in either February or A...

“Death and taxes may be inevitable but they shouldn’t be related” (J.C. Watts Jr)” Tax season 2019 begins on 1 August (1 July for taxpayers who are registere...

“Tax Freedom Day is calculated by dividing general government revenue by GDP at market prices, then multiplying the result by the number of days in a year, a...

There is chronic unemployment in the country and it is especially felt by the youth where up to 50% cannot find a job. The Employment Tax Incentive (ETI) is ...

There are only run-of-the-mill deadlines for July – 5 July – PAYE submissions and payments 25 July – VAT manual submissions and payments 30 July – Excise Dut...

Firstly, there are no major deadlines in June but tax season opens in July, so make sure you have all your documentation ready for your 2018/2019 Income Tax ...

“There are two systems of taxation in our country: one for the informed and one for the uninformed.” (U.S. Judge Learned Hand) Whether you have recently star...

“If only there was some kind of an infinite power source that was free to use all day every day…” (Anon) In a recent binding ruling, SARS confirmed it will a...

This has been causing waves since SARS stated its intentions of making electronic services subject to VAT last year. Now the final regulations have been publ...

Your Employer Annual Reconciliation Declaration (EMP501) for the period 1 March 2018 to 28 February 2019 is due on or before 31 May. This relates to your mon...