SARS E-Filing 2021/22

Cius said:
Uploaded docs on 30 Aug 2022. Still have not heard anything since.
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Uploaded docs 31 July, and just got an assessor assigned to my case on Monday.
 
A question for the smart people. My work from home claim got rejected this year, after successfully claiming for it in 20/21. The reason is: Shared office space.

So I do share this dedicated office space with my wife, but she does not claim for it. Is this the norm?
 
Bl4d3 said:
So hows this for my nightmare.
Previous employer jipoed my IRP5 for tax period 2021 and therefore SARS was unable to detect any of the tax payments, even though they processed the IRP5 and gave me a refund.
Months later, they started sending me threatening emails, to which I sent on to my previous employer.
3 months later (May 2022), my previous employer finally sends me the correct IRP5 with statements showing payment to SARS, etc.
So I got a tax practitioner involved to try sort this mess out and they logged a notice of objection and a suspension of payment on 16 May. SARS continues to demand all most R30000 from me in socalled unpaid taxes, even though they keep confirming that the tax was paid by my previous employer.

I called them earlier today, dialed 2, entered the reference number and the lady said there is nothing they can do, they cant help me because it still hasnt been allocated to someone to look into and if I want an update, I must phone back and dial 2, like I just did. Little did I know that this was just someone who was taking their last call for the day and trying to clock off, because I called back immediately and was hit with "Sorry, our offices are currently closed".

I am so gatvol of trying to deal with SARS, not to mention how pissed off I am with my previous employer because now I cant get my refund. Worst of all, all the staff that worked during that period have the exact same problem. Some even had accounts frozen by SARS pending payment. Its just 1 big **** show
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Update : Just called SARS again, explained the whole case and that I now want to escalate it.
Oak tells me "Sorry, I cant escalate your case because I have loadshedding."

Like wtf, I seriously dont get this at all
 
Bl4d3 said:
Update : Just called SARS again, explained the whole case and that I now want to escalate it.
Oak tells me "Sorry, I cant escalate your case because I have loadshedding."

Like wtf, I seriously dont get this at all
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Escalation at SARS means nothing. I escalated it a month back. Apparently escalation turn around time is supposed to be 5 days. Nothing has happened.
 
Hadn’t filed in years.
Apparently SARS owes me +-80k. Apparently R20k will be paid out to me tomorrow. Apparently 2 of my tax returns are under Audit. Apparently it can take up to 6 months to finalise.
 
Just did my telephonic submission for my return. Wow so not impressed.
Last year rhe lady who called me very friendly and helpful.
Today it was supposed to be at 1030 he calls at 930 asking me if I can do it now.then asks what is it for.. I'm like your system should say what its for.

He seemed very annoyed that I'm not doing it myself online as everything is prepopluated.(I have several investments so I like to double check with them) and then one thing was bot submitted automatically so he had to do it manually, anyways he says moving forward I will have to do it myself. I wanted to say but your job is to help ppl submit we as tax players pay you.
He rushed me and felt like I was doing him a favour . Umm no this is your job.
Shocking
 
Hi all,
I am working on my tax return for the first time (which is due in a week :oops:) and have a question regarding claiming cell phone expenses.

So I have a phone contract with Vodacom that comes up to R800 per month and I use the phone for about 30% of the time for my employment. Can I in any way claim this as an expense? How would I go about it?

Any help would be greatly appreciated!
 
johnspake said:
Hi all,
I am working on my tax return for the first time (which is due in a week :oops:) and have a question regarding claiming cell phone expenses.

So I have a phone contract with Vodacom that comes up to R800 per month and I use the phone for about 30% of the time for my employment. Can I in any way claim this as an expense? How would I go about it?

Any help would be greatly appreciated!
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I dont believe you can. You should be claiming that from your employer who will then show it on your payslip, this would then reflect on your IRP5.

I use my phone for about 90% work and couldnt claim for it on my return. Contract is R1400p/m
 
Just realised that the wife's accountant didn't do her sums, etc this year as she left the country and didn't bother to tell her clients and my wife is the worst admin wise. Noice!! Since I am not going to find an accountant in the next few days, hoping I can just do it for her, Using the same method the ex bookie, used but will use TaxTim to submit as I have been doing for the past few years.

I am confused about something.

Wife is a commission earner.

She bought an iPad for work in Dec 21 - cost approx 14K. According to taxtim, we can claim R1566 for the year ending Feb 22, and 6500 for next financial year, ending Feb23.

Do I only claim the R1566 as an 'expense' or is that depreciation?

Also am I right in assuming that something less than R8K in value can be deducted in full in one year? She bought some dentals tools and small computer equipment

Ta in advance
 
Prim0 said:
So SARS sent me a notice to say that I submitted my Tax Return late and I have to pay a penalty fee of R250.

When I check on my Return page it shows that I submitted my Tax Return on 11 July and supporting documents were submitted on 12 July. I have not heard anything since from SARS.

Has anyone else received a similar notice? Should I just dispute or am I liable to pay the penalty fee?

EDIT: Trying to make payment via the eFiling website just informs me that there is no outstanding balance to pay. LOL.
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I saeched this thread for "IT Admin Penalty" and then just "penalty" as well as "Successfully Deactivated" and your post and related replies came up for "penalty".

The reason for my post is that it's what I was greeted with after logging into efiling this evening, and I have no context for this mysterious message nor do I have any idea as to its meaning:

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Maybe I'm looking a gifthorse in the mouth and am going to regret it.

Some context that might be relevant: I was not selected for auto assessment (after a very long wait for my auto assessment SMS that never arrived) I received an email from SARS at the end of August saying:
The purpose of this email is to provide you with information to enable you to file your income tax return successfully and on time. For purposes of Filing Season 2022, you are not part of the auto-assessment population of taxpayers because your tax affairs are more complex and you are therefore required to file a tax return.
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So I assume (in the absence of any other clues) that this IT Admin Penalty was cron jobbed in the background and would have kicked in if my return was not filed before the deadline (or if I had been auto assessed and not successfully jumped through some auto assessment hoops).

Does anyone have any experience with the IT Admin Penalty thing?
 
Both my wife and I being audited (she is audited every year).

Me for a R2k refund from them and her for a 70k refund.

Why the feck are they auditing me - LOL

Anyway, hopefully all will be clear by mid Nov
 
Can you claim cellphone expenses bought from FNB if all you have is the bank statement that says MTN airtime and my number as the payment reference?

If not is there any other way to make that expense claimable?
 
airborne said:
Can you claim cellphone expenses bought from FNB if all you have is the bank statement that says MTN airtime and my number as the payment reference?

If not is there any other way to make that expense claimable?
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All expenses linked to trade income are deductible. If this is for a salaried employee it's not applicable tho.
 
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