{"id":775236,"date":"2024-06-04T12:11:04","date_gmt":"2024-06-04T10:11:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=775236"},"modified":"2024-06-04T12:15:17","modified_gmt":"2024-06-04T10:15:17","slug":"sars-announces-tax-season-2024-dates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/finance\/775236\/sars-announces-tax-season-2024-dates\/","title":{"rendered":"SARS announces tax season 2024 dates &#8211; when to expect auto assessments"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The South African Revenue Service (SARS) has announced the filing dates for tax season 2024, which will open in July.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The tax season for individual taxpayers (non-provisional) will open 15 July 2024 and run to 21 October 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Auto-assessment notices will start going out from 1 to 14 July 2024, SARS said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The filing season for provisional taxpayers will run from 15 July 2024 to 20 January 2025, and for trusts, from 16 September 2024 to 20 January 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Tax Season 2024 dates<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Individual taxpayers (non-provisional)<\/strong>: 15 July 2024 to 21 October 2024\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Auto-assessment notices: 1 \u2013 14 July 2024<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Provisional taxpayers:<\/strong>\u00a015 July 2024 to 20 January 2025<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Trusts<\/strong>: 16 September 2024 to 20 January 2025<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Ahead of tax season, SARS said that individual taxpayers should ensure they have received their IRP5\/IT3(a) and other tax certificates like medical aid, retirement annuity fund, and any other third-party data relevant to determining their tax obligations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Third parties would have already been sending this data to the taxman for processing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Information of any auto assessment changes for 2024 will still be communicated, SARS said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The group recommended that taxpayers make use of eFiling or the SARS MobiApp to handle their tax affairs and avoid trying to do it over the phone or in person. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, if needing to address tax affairs in person, bookings can also<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sars.gov.za\/contact-us\/make-an-appointment\/\"><strong> be made online<\/strong><\/a> or by sending an SMS to request a booking.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/business-opinion\/774241\/tax-revolt-in-south-africa-is-already-happening\/\">Tax revolt in South Africa is already happening<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SARS has announced the dates for tax season 2024, and urged taxpayers to get their finances in order.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":736439,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11121],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-775236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-finance","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775236","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=775236"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":775240,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775236\/revisions\/775240"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/736439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=775236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=775236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=775236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}