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South Africa: 3.84 Million Tax Returns Filed: SARS |
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www.sanews.gov.za |
| Source Date: |
Friday, November 21, 2014 |
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ICT for MDGs
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South Africa |
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Nov 21, 2014 |
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“Tax season 2014 will end this Friday (21 November) for most South African taxpayers, and SARS urges all those who have not yet submitted a return to do so as soon as possible. It is inevitable that queues will start to build at SARS branches, and that the volume of calls handled by the SARS Contact Centre will increase as the date approaches. The sooner you submit your return, the quicker the process will be.”
The revenue service has seen a steep increase this week in the numbers of people using eFiling, the Contact Centre and visiting branches.
Yesterday saw almost double the number of returns filed (nearly 46 000) compared to last Monday (10th November). This increase is expected to continue for the rest of the week.
“Taxpayers are warned to be on the lookout for fraud and phishing scams, where criminals try to gain access to their banking details by sending emails which pretend to be from SARS. SARS will never ask for personal, tax, banking or eFiling details (passwords, login information etc) via phone or email. Taxpayers will also never be asked to log into the eFiling website from a link in an email,” it said.
Finally, SARS emphasised that a tax refund is not a right.
“All claims that are not substantiated by the correct supporting documentation will be disallowed. Taxpayers must not claim for expenses which are not allowable, and should never claim for expenses for which there is no proper evidence.”
The SARS Contact Centre can be reached at 0800 007 277.
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South Africa: 3.84 Million Tax Returns Filed: SARS With the 2014 tax season coming to an end soon a total of over 3.84 million South Africans had submitted their tax returns said the South African Revenue Service SARS At 9am this morning over 3.84 million South Africans had submitted their tax returns Of those just over 2 million returns were completed via eFiling and over 1.8 million completed electronically at a SARS branch Just 3 929 physical paper returns have been submitted thus far,” said SARS in a statement on Tuesday The 2014 Tax Season which opened on 1 July ends on Friday 21 November 2014
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