Travel Claim not allowed by SARS

By Alicia Human · Updated

Mrs

Mrs said:
8 February 2017 at 14:58

Hi Tim, I received a travel allowance upfront however I do a lot of traveling between two offices and I claim back travel on a monthly basis capped at 1850kms though I travel in excess of 2000kms per month. I've filed my tax return showing both business travel and personal but now SARS says I owe them about R27000. How is that possible when I didn't claim for the excess travel I did, just the capped 1850km. I can follow through their calculation but do not understand why they didn't include business kilometers in their calculation.
TaxTim Alicia

TaxTim Alicia said:
10 February 2017 at 8:45

It would appear SARS have not taken into account the business KM. You now need to file a dispute with them by clicking on the RETURNS TAB, DISPUTES and following the process.