Definitions
Provisional Taxpayers
Click here to find out if you are a provisional taxpayer. Provisional taxpayers are people who earn income other than a salary / remuneration. If you earn any of
Read moreMedical Tax Credits
The medical tax credit, brought in from the 2013 tax year provides for a monthly credit against your tax owing to SARS. If you and/or your dependents belong to
Read moreBeneficial Owner
A beneficial owner is the person who ultimately owns or benefits from an asset or income, even if it is registered in someone else's name. For example: If a t
Read moreIT3(BO)
An IT3(BO) is a form issued by a partnership to SARS that shows your share of income as a beneficial owner in the partnership. It provides SARS with third-part
Read morePartnership
A partnership is an association between 2 - 20 people who are contractually bound to one another in order to operate a joint, profit-making business together. E
Read moreDeemed disposal
In South Africa, a deemed disposal happens when you’re treated as if you sold an asset—even though you didn’t actually sell it. This is import
Read moreTaxable Income
Taxable income is the amount on which tax will be calculated on. Formula for Taxable Income: Taxable income = Gross Income - Exempt Income - Allowable Deducti
Read moreGross Income
For SA residents: "Gross income" is the total amount of worldwide (local and foreign) income that you earned during the tax year, excluding income that is of a
Read moreITR12
An Income Tax Return (ITR12) is a form that SARS requires all individuals (including provisional taxpayers) to complete and submit to SARS once every year. The
Read moreIRP6
An IRP6 is a Tax Return completed by provisional taxpayers twice during the tax year to declare their estimated taxable income. The first provisional tax retur
Read moreFinancial Instrument
A financial instrument is a contract that represents money or something of value. For one party, it’s an asset (something valuable), and for the other par
Read moreDeemed Annuities
Deemed annuities are regular payments made by the trust to a beneficiary that are treated as taxable income, even though they are not from a formal annuity poli
Read moreTrust
A trust is a legal arrangement where a person or people (called the trustees) manage money, assets, or property for the benefit of others (called the beneficiar
Read moreBeneficiary
A beneficiary is a person or entity who receives income or assets from a trust, estate, retirement fund or life insurance fund. In a trust, income distributed
Read moreDeemed Dividends
A deemed dividend from a trust is when a company pays money to a trust, and that payment is treated as if it were a dividend, even though no formal dividend was
Read moreLocal capital gains or losses
A local capital gain is a a profit made on the sale of any local asset such as a property (primary residence or rental property), shares (listed or unlisted), u
Read moreForeign Liabilities
Any foreign debts, payable to either a foreign, bank, company or individual as at the end of the tax year.
Read moreForeign Assets
Foreign assets refers to the value of your foreign properties, investments and any other assets you own abroad at the end of the tax year.
Read moreLocal Liabilities
Local liabilites are the amounts you owe to banks, companies, businesses or people in South Africa.
Read moreLocal Assets
Local assets are all the assets you own in South Africa, such as local owned properties, vehicles, shares, loans you gave someone else, investments in the bank,
Read moreTax Directive
A tax directive is another word for an instruction issued by SARS to an employer or a fund telling them how much tax they should deduct from your income. Each t
Read moreNet Capital
Net capital is the value of your business after subtracting what you owe (liabilities) from what you own (assets). It shows your business’s financial stre
Read moreForeign Dividends
A foreign dividend is a payment made by a foreign company to you because you own shares in the foreign company. It’s a way for the company to share its pr
Read moreWear and Tear
Wear and Tear or Depreciation is the decrease in value of an asset. SARS allows you to deduct this decrease each year, which you can then use towards replacing
Read moreWRAV01
The WRAV01 is the menu on the left hand side of the RAV01 form. It opens when you are ready to edit your data with SARS or add new details, or register a new ta
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