SARS request for remission advice. Made a mistake at work.

[deweyzeph]

This really hurt my soul to read. Submitted 2 RFR’s last week.

They charged me R3000 penalty for not submitting my 2023 refund. I honestly thought I had - turns out I had actually just hit save and never came back to submit (I actually posted about it on myBB at the time)

Only found out last week when they sent me the FIRST and ONLY notification that I owed them. Soon as I hit submitted I got credit of ~R700. Checked my SOA a few days later and they had subtracted the 700 from the.. 4000 now it was - they had added another R1000 in May for not submitting my 2023 return.

Does everyone get fined R1000 per month at some point or certain people just targeted? Anyway I submitted the RFR’s begging. The end

I'm surprised you didn't realise you had only hit Save when you didn't receive any assessment after thinking you had submitted. The first thing I check for after submitting my income tax return is the ITA34. which you would only get if your return was successfully submitted.

 

[rjay100]

For what I've seen the penalty amounts scale according to the amount owing and how late the return is

They forgave the 1000. So owe them 3150.
Just filed my tax return. They owe me 3280.

Yeah sure I don’t owe em anymore but the way it just magically offsets just pisses me off. Maxed out my TFSA, contributed 30k to an RA. What a sham