SARS eFiling 2026/2027

No auto-assessment this year for me. Trying to update my return and everything just times out on the site.
 
Ockie said:
Hello guys. Perhaps you can shed some light. Did my ITR12 today and calculated the result.

Appart from my normal IRP5 the only other income on it is interest received from Bank Zero for about R2000.00

The calculation shows I need to pay SARS R6000.00 ????

I don't understand how. :(
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Ask HR if they paid to little tax
 
Ockie said:
Hello guys. Perhaps you can shed some light. Did my ITR12 today and calculated the result.

Appart from my normal IRP5 the only other income on it is interest received from Bank Zero for about R2000.00

The calculation shows I need to pay SARS R6000.00 ????

I don't understand how. :(
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Could be a few things - your employer underpaid PAYE and you need to pay in the missing amount. Did you change jobs? Any allowances for travel, etc? Salary increases?

If none of that, then your HR just paid too little tax on your behalf during the year using wrong tax tables. Usually people get tax back because their employee took too much off your salary and you getting a refund.

Without seeing the ITR12 it's hard to say exactly why.

Also your HR misundestood you - you're not asking them file your tax, you're asking them how they calculated your tax tables when they deduct it every month.
 
Submitted mine with additional medical info. Got the request for supporting docs, submitted them and now we wait...
 
flarkit said:
Submitted mine with additional medical info. Got the request for supporting docs, submitted them and now we wait...
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Yeah mine's the same; even though nothing has changed for years. Many moons ago I had a tax consultant do it for me and ever since then it always defaults to "This was completed by a tax practisioner" tick , and I'm guessing when I untick it, it autoflags it for assessment. Wish I could change it. My wife's one gets auto assessed each year and it's so easy.
 
Couldn’t sleep on Sunday night, at about 3AM Monday morning I logged in and completed my assessment. Completed by Tax Practitioner box was also ticked, I unchecked it. Getting a nice refund, not selected for verification (phew).
SOA shows payment date 1 August which sucks.
 
I messed up with mine last night. I used my IRP5 for the medical aid contributions and not the actual medical aid certificate, and did not take heed of the automatic notice when filling the details in, which tells you to use the amount on your medical aid certificate unless otherwise instructed to use your IRP5.

I got a request for supporting docs (medical aid certificate), but when I picked up on my error, I asked to resubmit and redone the whole thing this morning.

Don't sit and look at numbers when you are tired. Just go to bed and leave it for the next day. 😐
 
My Tax season started badly, no auto-assessment.
If i log in my certificates are not populated.
I do it manually and get rejected.
Then you get cryptic messages which does not make sense.
No I'm on the phone to them.Long queue ................
 
Nahnotme said:
Couldn’t sleep on Sunday night, at about 3AM Monday morning I logged in and completed my assessment. Completed by Tax Practitioner box was also ticked, I unchecked it. Getting a nice refund, not selected for verification (phew).
SOA shows payment date 1 August which sucks.
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Generate a new SOA, that 1 August date is normally just an automated date populated by them. My actual electronic refund only showed up this morning, stating 15 July
 
HowTo said:
My Tax season started badly, no auto-assessment.
If i log in my certificates are not populated.
I do it manually and get rejected.
Then you get cryptic messages which does not make sense.
No I'm on the phone to them.Long queue ................
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Certificate also not populated.

Informed HR and apparently it happened to a few people, not sure whos at fault, but still, unnecessary stress
 
Paid under my bills in my banking app but there was 3 mybills for the same sars payment any idea how I delete them ? (bank states it needs to be done of sars website)
 
whatwhat said:
Could be a few things - your employer underpaid PAYE and you need to pay in the missing amount. Did you change jobs? Any allowances for travel, etc? Salary increases?

If none of that, then your HR just paid too little tax on your behalf during the year using wrong tax tables. Usually people get tax back because their employee took too much off your salary and you getting a refund.

Without seeing the ITR12 it's hard to say exactly why.

Also your HR misundestood you - you're not asking them file your tax, you're asking them how they calculated your tax tables when they deduct it every month.
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This is where the calculation is done. The Employees tax and tax credit sis less than the subtotal above it. Should they not be the same?
 
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Ockie said:
This is where the calculation is done. The Employees tax and tax credit sis less than the subtotal above it. Should they not be the same?
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You can remove the picture now.

SARS worked out the top amount of tax on your taxable income, then knocked off the primary rebate (everyone under 65 gets that). That leaves you with the subtotal amount.

Your employer only paid that amount of PAYE during the year, so the difference is what you still owe SARS.

Basically your PAYE was under-deducted. If you have an RA or pay your own medical aid and those aren't showing, claiming them could reduce or wipe out the amount owed.

Otherwise, this is just a case of your HR missing out additional tax on a bonus, or not taking enough away every month to cover the tax. They should be taking R520 a month more from you for tax - or they are not doing it because they assuming you have medical or RA that will reduce your taxable income.
 
whatwhat said:
You can remove the picture now.

SARS worked out the top amount of tax on your taxable income, then knocked off the primary rebate (everyone under 65 gets that). That leaves you with the subtotal amount.

Your employer only paid that amount of PAYE during the year, so the difference is what you still owe SARS.

Basically your PAYE was under-deducted. If you have an RA or pay your own medical aid and those aren't showing, claiming them could reduce or wipe out the amount owed.

Otherwise, this is just a case of your HR missing out additional tax on a bonus, or not taking enough away every month to cover the tax. They should be taking R520 a month more from you for tax - or they are not doing it because they assuming you have medical or RA that will reduce your taxable income.
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I dont have medical aid or RA. So if my company took too little, surely that cant be my responsibility? Last year I did not have this issue. I dont have R6200.00 to pay SARS. My company should be decducting my UIF, PAYE etc....that is not for me to do????
 
Ockie said:
I dont have medical aid or RA. So if my company took too little, surely that cant be my responsibility? Last year I did not have this issue. I dont have R6200.00 to pay SARS. My company should be decducting my UIF, PAYE etc....that is not for me to do????
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You would think so but it still remains your problem. I have had issues like this before. Too many members used for medical credits and i had tax due since the Discovery certificate showed less. The problem came from changes in VIP payroll.
 
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