{"id":327169,"date":"2019-07-03T14:10:30","date_gmt":"2019-07-03T12:10:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=327169"},"modified":"2019-07-03T14:12:59","modified_gmt":"2019-07-03T12:12:59","slug":"sars-working-on-efiling-bug-warns-that-clicking-multiple-times-makes-it-worse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/finance\/327169\/sars-working-on-efiling-bug-warns-that-clicking-multiple-times-makes-it-worse\/","title":{"rendered":"SARS working on eFiling bug &#8211; warns that clicking multiple times makes it worse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The South African Revenue Service (SARS) says it is aware of a problem that some taxpayers are experiencing while submitting returns through eFiling.<\/p>\n<p>The revenue service said that the issue occurs when users try to save their income tax return, and immediately re-open the return and press the tax calculates button before the form has fully rendered.<\/p>\n<p>The problem is aggravated when taxpayers click multiple times as they try to view their return.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;SARS will be putting in a fix where all the buttons, including the calculate button, will be greyed while the form is still loading. SARS will also limit the clicks on each button to (one click),&#8221; it said.<\/p>\n<p>The tax body said that it is encouraged by a positive uptake in the number tax returns submitted via eFiling already.<\/p>\n<p>It said that over half a million individuals logged on in the first two days &#8211; of whom 297,488 requested their return and 188,140 filed.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wealth\/326255\/the-tax-benefits-of-giving-to-charity\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The tax benefits of giving to charity<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The South African Revenue Service says it is aware of a problem that some taxpayers are experiencing while submitting returns through eFiling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":80497,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11121],"tags":[26,3246],"class_list":["post-327169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-finance","tag-headline","tag-sars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=327169"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":327185,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327169\/revisions\/327185"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}