SARS E-Filing 2016

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Anyone get a duplicate sms and email notification regarding correspondence issued? I just did and logged in to check what was going on but my profile still only shows 2 letters issued: request for supporting documents and then the one saying verification complete.
 
Question: I had to phone the dreaded Call Center, the person said I have a outstanding 2010 submission (when I started work after study) but the website says nothing, what do I do here? Do I just ignore it?
 
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Yennork said:
Question: I had to phone the dreaded Call Center, the person said I have a outstanding 2010 submission (when I started work after work after study) but the website says nothing, what do I do here? Do I just ignore it?
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Don't ignore it. Click on tax returns and there should be a drop down on the top right with the year. Select 2010 and request tax return. You can then submit it.

Also check if you have any administrative penalties added to your account. I've dealt with some huge administrative penalties because of issues like this. Penalties can be anything from R250 per month for every month that the return is overdue. I've successfully had these waived by lodging an appeal.
 
Noseworthy said:
How the hell! Most of office is less than 600
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Dude stop stressing about that bit. He gave government an interest free, short term loan and is only getting it paid back now.

My returns have been small too, even now just like R900.

But next year probably somewhere just over R10 000. But that's because I'm putting R1000s more since last month into a Retirement Annuity (the allowed tax deductions on retirement funds was increased to 27.5% from 1 March 2016) and I had previous over contributions (I paid more than I could deduct with the old system) rolling over each years since 2013.
 
signates said:
Don't ignore it. Click on tax returns and there should be a drop down on the top right with the year. Select 2010 and request tax return. You can then submit it.

Also check if you have any administrative penalties added to your account. I've dealt with some huge administrative penalties because of issues like this. Penalties can be anything from R250 per month for every month that the return is overdue. I've successfully had these waived by lodging an appeal.
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Thanks!!
 
signates said:
Don't ignore it. Click on tax returns and there should be a drop down on the top right with the year. Select 2010 and request tax return. You can then submit it.

Also check if you have any administrative penalties added to your account. I've dealt with some huge administrative penalties because of issues like this. Penalties can be anything from R250 per month for every month that the return is overdue. I've successfully had these waived by lodging an appeal.
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And if I accidentally opened a second ITR12 on 2013 and had completed and submitted the original correctly, its status is Your return is overdue, please submit urgently, what do I do?
 
supersunbird said:
And if I accidentally opened a second ITR12 on 2013 and had completed and submitted the original correctly, its status is Your return is overdue, please submit urgently, what do I do?
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I just open the return and click on the "Manually submitted" button. Never had an issue doing this and have had a few instance, about 5 instances in the years I've submitted tax returns.
 
Noseworthy said:
Ok figured it out. Alexander Forbes is to blame.
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How did you find that out?

I helped my mother with her e-filing last year, she had the same lump sum message, but we could not determine when and where this happened and SARS call centre could not give us any info either.
 
supersunbird said:
Dude stop stressing about that bit. He gave government an interest free, short term loan and is only getting it paid back now.

My returns have been small too, even now just like R900.

But next year probably somewhere just over R10 000. But that's because I'm putting R1000s more since last month into a Retirement Annuity (the allowed tax deductions on retirement funds was increased to 27.5% from 1 March 2016) and I had previous over contributions (I paid more than I could deduct with the old system) rolling over each years since 2013.
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Do those rollovers happen automatically or so you specify it somehow?
 
SauRoNZA said:
Do those rollovers happen automatically or so you specify it somehow?
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Automatically.

You declare your RA contributions (SARS code 4006) as per your tax certificate from your RA provider when doing your return.

Then when you get your Notice of Assessment (ITA34), you scroll down to Deductions allowed, it will show your declared amount under Current retirement annuity fund and then the deduction allowed for this year (generally 15% of calculated non-retirement funding income), under Amount b/f from previous year it will show you what was carried over from the previous year (its shows that amount on previous years ITA34), under Amount c/f to next year it will show you amount carried over to 2017s tax filing, which I was not able to deduct this year.

In my case the amount carried forward is R15406. So that will be added to my currently increased RA contributions next year, and my provident fund contributions, which will be allowed from next year, but which my employer will tax correctly so no big difference there I suspect. With the current RA and the brought forward RA deductions and the provident fund I will hit that new 27.5% deduction limit of my total income and get a nice big deduction due to the RA, which will greatly cover the Capital Gain Tax I will be liable for since I sold a property after 1 March. If I didn't have the CGT I would get a big refund.
 
Yeah that's how I expect it to work just wanted to be sure.

Saw those columns before but wasn't sure if it needed to be populated manually.
 
snail112 said:
How did you find that out?

I helped my mother with her e-filing last year, she had the same lump sum message, but we could not determine when and where this happened and SARS call centre could not give us any info either.
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Called sars and asked them where the directive was issued. They gave me an Alexander Forbes email address.
 
SauRoNZA said:
You paid them or they paid you?

Cause it you had to pay that in, something seems very wrong.
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Unless op lived off hot money for the year and then had a change of heart and declared it via the return. #HighlyUnlikely
 
FlashSA said:
Unless op lived off hot money for the year and then had a change of heart and declared it via the return. #HighlyUnlikely
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refund, i pay my own discovery( 2 dependants on Classic Comp) and RA
 
ijacobs3 said:
refund, i pay my own discovery( 2 dependants on Classic Comp) and RA
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Similiar boat. 3 dependant's on Discovery and just less than R14k out of pocket medical expenses. Type of medical plan has no effect on refund, though, only the number of dependant's. People on the cheapest hospital plan will get the same back as you on your higher plan.
 
FlashSA said:
Unless op lived off hot money for the year and then had a change of heart and declared it via the return. #HighlyUnlikely
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I've seen some small business accounting departments cock it up spectacularly.
 
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