SARS Issue that I don't understand

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This is the first time I am submitting my tax return. Can anyone explain this to me? When i first subimtted my tax return, I filled it in thinking it was straight forward and that I was getting money back. It turns out that I had made a mistake and I thought that I owe THEM money. However it turns out I just misread and that they paid out money back to me. But now I have this sum of R8000 that is going to be deducted and I do not understand why.

To make it short and easy, I am going to paste the notice as I've received it:

Dear XX XXXXXXXX

Thank you for submitting your income tax return for the 2012 year of assessment. Your assessment has been concluded and reflects an amount payable by you of R 8664.48 . Payment should be made by 2013-01-31 after which interest will accrue on this assessment as from 2012-10-01

Please note that this amount only reflects your income tax assessment and does not reflect tax payable under any previous assessment or any other balances on your account. The current balance on your assessed account is R -2443.50. For a full statement reflecting your final balance (including all amounts payable or refundable under any previous assessment, refunds, payments, additional taxes, penalties and interest), please request a Statement of Account via eFiling, your local SARS branch or the SARS Contact Centre on 0800 00 SARS (7277). The final balance is reflected on the remittance advice at the bottom of the Statement of Account. Please note that interest accrues on all taxes payable after the due date so you are advised to pay in full on or before the due date.

Below you will find the amounts of income included and deductions allowed in calculating this assessment. It is very important that you check these amounts to ensure:
1. They are correct
2. They reflect all your taxable income and allowable deductions for the year

If you are of the view that the assessment contains a processing, calculation or other error, you should request a revised assessment.

If you are unsure how the assessment was arrived at or the reasons for any adjustments made, you may write a letter requesting SARS to provide further information about how this assessment was made. This letter must be delivered to your nearest SARS branch within 30 days after the date of this assessment or sending it via registered mail to the address at the top of this notice.

I think next year I'll just leave this to the accountant
 
Basically SARS owes you R2443.50 i.e. after taking into account the R8664.48 that you were owing for the current tax year. Are you a provisional tax payer by any chance?
 
Basically SARS owes you R2443.50 i.e. after taking into account the R8664.48 that you were owing for the current tax year. Are you a provisional tax payer by any chance?

Nope, not a provisional tax payer. i get my salary and that is it, nothing saved, nothing owned. So i don't owe anythign to SARS further? That is how i understood it, but now a payment is going to be going off sometime this month for it, and i've pushed it to the date of my salary in case of worse case scenario
 
They invite you to write a letter, so do it. Have you received a written assessment? Do not assume that this assessment is correct. I can work out my tax (as a provisional taxpayer) to the nearest R10 but now and then SARS make mistakes and charge for penalties and interest when it is not due.

So read it carefully, make sure all the deductions you are entitled to have been deducted and the net amount and tax rate is correct

Why did you start off with a negative balance?
 
They invite you to write a letter, so do it. Have you received a written assessment? Do not assume that this assessment is correct. I can work out my tax (as a provisional taxpayer) to the nearest R10 but now and then SARS make mistakes and charge for penalties and interest when it is not due.

So read it carefully, make sure all the deductions you are entitled to have been deducted and the net amount and tax rate is correct

Why did you start off with a negative balance?

I went into SARS to see if it perhaps was a mistake, but I'm still new to all this tax stuff and even my dad who is a fundy and has been doing this for years is puzzled. SARS actually did this assessment for me, they audited me after i filled in my tax return(put something in the wrong section under medical aid, which they pointed out and told me that often people make that mistake).

as far as i can see everything looks correct now, so just don't understand why i ower the R8000 other than it's just something normal.

Stuffed if i know why i started out with a negative balance :D
 
Resolved, thanks very much for your help Mbuzi :)
 
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