SARS: 3 million taxpayers won’t have to file tax returns
The South African Revenue Services (SARS) says more than 3 million taxpayers have been auto-assessed for their personal tax returns.
Tax season starts on Friday, during which non-provisional taxpayers will have to submit their personal income tax returns.
SARS commissioner Edward Kieswetter says the auto assessments are part of building a smart revenue service.
"Technology, the use of data, artificial intelligence and algorithms have enabled SARS to make it easy and seamless for most individual taxpayers to comply with their legal obligations.
"All these innovations support our strategic objective of providing clarity and certainty to help foster a culture of voluntary compliance.""
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“At the same time, the use of technology and data have also enabled SARS to significantly sharpen its capability to detect non-compliance and to make such non-compliance hard and costly.”
From Friday, affected taxpayers will receive communication through SMS or email.
Taxpayers who did not get an auto-assessment have until 24 October to file their returns.
