Kaya 959 Reporter
The South African Revenue Service (SARS) has extended the filing season deadline for non-provisional individual taxpayers from 23 November 2021 to 2 December 2021.
The extension comes as a result of many taxpayers being unable to file their taxes on time.
SARS has said they are aware of the challenges the country is facing in this regard.
“SARS is acutely aware of systemic issues the organisation has experienced, as well as the impact of load-shedding on taxpayers which made it difficult for taxpayers to file their returns.”
Media Release: SARS extends filing season deadline
To afford other taxpayers the opportunity to comply with their legal requirements, SARS will extend the filing season deadline for non-provisional individual taxpayers from 23 November to 2 December 202…https://t.co/Dqo2WKKtVp
— SA Revenue Service (@sarstax) November 23, 2021
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Kaya Biz with Gugulethu Mfuphi spike to Khutjo Mabetwa, who is the SARS Regional Director in Gauging North, who outlined what the new extension means for tax payers.
“We are now finilising the assessments, we have previously sent out the auto-assessments, that tax-payers either have to accept or amend.”
“If they have failed to do that by the deadline, which is now on the 1st of December, from the 6th of December we will proceed to do the estimated assessment, which means finalizing the assessment.”
“In January we will start to implementing the administrative penalties for submissions and I think that information is very very important.”
“With our efforts to make it easy for tax payers to comply come through before the 2nd of December, if you received an estimated assessment and wish to make changes, you can still make that without incurring any penalties.”
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SARS has urged taxpayers to use our convenient digital channels, namely, eFiling, SARS MobiApp, as well as the SMS service, which has the number 47277.
By sending an SMS to this number, taxpayers can book an appointment at a SARS branch, check if they need to file a return and other services.
The SARS website has also been upgraded to allow for more digital services to taxpayers. For more information on these services, visit www.sars.gov.za.
In a press statement SARS says they remains committed to make it simple and easy for taxpayers to meet their legal obligations and hopes that the extension of the filing season deadline will encourage greater compliance among taxpayers



