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If you're receiving a travel allowance it is COMPULSORY as from today to keep a logbook of all private and business kilometres - WITHOUT a logbook you will not be able to claim a travel deduction. (this is if you want to claim the actual costs: fuel, maintenance, lease and Insurance costs, otherwise you have to use the table of costs provides by SARS)

Also capture your vehicle's odometer reading on 1 March each year.
TIP: SMS your own car's kilometre reading as on 28 February 2010 to your own cell phone for safekeeping.

Please see the SARS logbook that you can download if needed.

http://www.sars.co.za/home.asp?pid=42105
 
Yeah I downloaded the online Logbook the other day. Does not seem to have enough columns though. Is it really necessary to keep a log of private kilos as well? /cant you just deduct business kilos...
 
cant one get something like skytrax just as a log, or if you get that do you need to take the recovery and panic button etc as well
 
jay-co said:
cant one get something like skytrax just as a log, or if you get that do you need to take the recovery and panic button etc as well
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I think you can opt NOT to take the tracking device.

It is a million times easier to have an electronic odometer.
 
What in the world are they trying to achieve with this stone aged logbook system? The deemed km thing was implemented to simplify things for the tax payer and for sars. Why make more work now? If people were abusing the deemed km why not just shape that system closing loops etc. Why go back to the stone age?

EDIT: Another thing do they think people are going to be honest in their little logbooks?
 
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Oh lord. Just one more piece of admin for me to deal with in my already admin heavy daily grind.
 
How's the admin on their side going to work? Are they hiring more staff for this?
 
i have no clue how it is going to work because if they want you to upload it, one only gets 2mgs of uploading allowed on e-filing. that's it!!! you cannot uload 2mgs and then go upload another 2mgs, it doesn't work like that. i know it might sound like a lot but sometimes if you have a few documents that need to be uploaded, you're screwed.
 
Has anyone filled in the logbook? The Opening and Closing columns, is that your odometer readings? Because in totals at the bottom , it just keeps adding up! :confused:
 
Vegeta said:
EDIT: Another thing do they think people are going to be honest in their little logbooks?
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I'm not... at the end of the year I'm going to work out how much Km's I need to allocate to business and then fudge the logbook, as long as everything adds up who is going to know ?
 
i'm sure that a spread sheet will sufice.

Opening Closing Private Total
March 09
April 09
etc
can't get the thing to tab along so picture the "opening etc" tabbed along.
 
Celine said:
i'm sure that a spread sheet will sufice.

Opening Closing Private Total
March 09
April 09
etc
can't get the thing to tab along so picture the "opening etc" tabbed along.
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Oh ok, I see. So it's monthly, and not daily?
 
Nerfherder said:
I'm not... at the end of the year I'm going to work out how much Km's I need to allocate to business and then fudge the logbook, as long as everything adds up who is going to know ?
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If your company has some sort of asset managing they'll only accept business kilometers that you have actually logged and claimed back from your business. Part of the new system is to make it harder for people to fudge their business kms, else you could just claim all your kilometers as business. The guys with car allowances at our work will get their logbooks submitted for them along with their IRP5s, and it will only include business kms logged in SAP.
 
Slootvreter said:
Oh ok, I see. So it's monthly, and not daily?
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yes i can't see how a daily logbook can possibly be accepted. 21 days in a month? times 12? and how many taxpayers will possibly received travel allowances?
it is almost impossible to go through a daily logbook of millions of people. i have been doing a monthly spread sheet for my clients and it has been accepted. this has obviously been taken from their daily logs and transposed to the monthly spread sheet. it's simple.
 
Celine said:
yes i can't see how a daily logbook can possibly be accepted. 21 days in a month? times 12? and how many taxpayers will possibly received travel allowances?
it is almost impossible to go through a daily logbook of millions of people. i have been doing a monthly spread sheet for my clients and it has been accepted. this has obviously been taken from their daily logs and transposed to the monthly spread sheet. it's simple.
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I know, I have started filling in the days, and I check the totals at the bottom, and thought, no, this has got to be wrong.

Thanks!
 
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