A minor can in fact be registered as a taxpayer in South Africa. This is in terms of section 67(1) of the Income Tax Act that "every person who at any time becomes liable for any normal tax or who becomes liable to submit any return contemplated in section 66 must apply to the Commissioner to be registered as a taxpayer in accordance with Chapter 3 of the Tax Administration Act.” If the minor therefore becomes liable to submit a return or becomes liable for any normal tax, the minor must be registered as a taxpayer. Section 68. Income and capital gain of married persons and minor children.—(1) Any-- (a) income received by or accrued to or in favour of any person married in or out of community of property which in terms of section 7 (2) is deemed to be income received by or accrued to such person’s spouse; or (b) capital gain which is in terms of paragraph 68 of the Eighth Schedule taken into account in the determination of the aggregate capital gain or aggregate capital loss of such person’s spouse, shall be included by such spouse in returns of income required to be rendered by that spouse under this Act. (2) In the event of the death of any person during any year in respect of which such income is chargeable or in which such capital gain is taken into account, the income or capital gain of such person’s spouse for the period elapsing between the date of such death and the last day of the year of assessment shall be returned as the separate income of such spouse. (3) (a) Every parent shall be required to include in his return-- (i) any income received by or accrued to or in favour of any of that parent’s minor children either directly or indirectly from that parent; or (ii) any capital gain or capital loss in respect of any transaction entered into directly or indirectly by that parent, which is taken into account in the determination of the aggregate capital gain or aggregate capital loss of any of that parent’s minor children, together with such particulars as may be required by the Commissioner. (b) Every parent shall be required to include in that parent’s return any income deemed to be that parent’s income in terms of subsection (3) or (4) of section 7 or any capital gain deemed to be that parent’s capital gain in terms of paragraph 69 of the Eighth Schedule. Income of Minor children A taxpayer is liable for the payment of tax on any income which has been received by or accrued to or in favour of any minor children if such income arises from a donation, settlement, or other disposition by – (i) the taxpayer; or (ii) any other person, if the taxpayer made a donation, settlement or gave some consideration directly or indirectly in favour of the other person or his family. A minor child will, however, be liable for tax on income which is received or accrues to him/her independently of him/herself; in his own right, for example, bona fide salary and investment income derived from his/her own funds i.e. from money inherited by him/her or received as a gift from any person other than the person mentioned in (i) and (ii) above or from any other source. Should a minor child’s taxable income be sufficient to render him/her liable for tax, the taxpayer, as the legal guardian, must register him/her for income tax purposes and obtain and submit a return on his/her behalf. All investment income received by or accrued to a taxpayer or his/her minor children must be declared (including investment income which has not been paid but has been utilised, accumulated or re-invested for the taxpayer or his/her minor children’s benefit). Where interest is claimed as a deduction against investment income received, full particulars (i.e. amounts invested/borrowed, interest rates, date of each loan and investment) must retained for a period of five years after submission of the return. Courtesy of: Fedgroup
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The tax filing season for individual non-provisional taxpayers will start on 7th July 20223. We would like to remind you to submit your tax return in good time. According to SARS official media release: Here are the dates and criteria for the 2023 Filing Season: Individual taxpayers (non-provisional): 7 July 2023 @ 20:00 to 23 October 2023 Provisional taxpayers: 7 July 2023 @ 20:00 to 24 January 2024 What’s new? Pre-population of ITR12 Third Party Data in preparation for the opening of Filing Season 2023: Please be advised that in preparation for the opening of the Personal Income Tax Filing Season in July 2023, between the period of 2 June 2023 until the opening of Filing Season, there is a possibility that the prepopulated data reflecting within your Personal Income Tax or Provisional Tax returns requested via eFiling, the SARS Mobi application or via a SARS Branch Office during this period, will pre-populate but may not be comprehensive until Filing Season is officially opened to the public. Have you received an Auto Assessment? Between 1 July and 7 July 2023, taxpayers will be notified by SMS or email if they were selected to receive an auto-assessment. Should you receive the SMS, the next step for you would be to review the auto-assessment on the SARS MobiApp or eFiling.
How is Auto Assessment different this year (2023) from last year (2022)? Last year you had 40 days to file a return if you were not happy with your auto-assessment, but this year we are giving you until the due date of 23 October 2023. If an auto-assessment has been issued after 23 October 2023 the 40 business days will start on the date of the notice of the assessment. What to prepare before filing starts?
Source: SARS By now you should have received tax certificates from financial institutions in the months of May and June to assist with your tax filing. These include tax certificates from the medical aid, banks, life insurance companies and investment companies. Check your email inbox and junk folder, search for the keyword "tax certificate" to find relevant emails. Download the attached tax certificates in a folder on your local drive or cloud storage for tax filing. Discovery Health: The email from Discovery Health looks like the following: Tax CertificatesBy now you should have received tax certificates from financial institutions in the months of May and June to assist with your tax filing. These include tax certificates from the medical aid, banks, life insurance companies and investment companies. Check your email inbox and junk folder, search for the keyword "tax certificate" to find relevant emails. Download the tax certificates in a folder on your local drive or cloud storage for tax filing. Allan Gray To view and download your latest and historical tax certificates, log in to your secure online account at www.allangray.co.za and navigate to ‘Statements & documents’ >> ‘Tax certificates’.
If you have difficulties downloading your tax certificates, or require the service of a tax practitioner, email to service@daberistic.com and our team will gladly assist you. Around January and February of every year, we would like to remind you to consider topping up your retirement annuity fund and tax-free investment.
According to the current legislation, you may contribute up to 27.5% of your taxable income to a retirement annuity fund and enjoy tax deductions, subject to a limit of R350,000. As the 28th February is the end of the tax year, you must calculate and pay the additional amount to your retirement annuity prior to this date, in order to qualify for tax deductions and tax refunds. Here is an example: Ms Rama has a monthly salary of R80,000. In December she received a bonus of R100,000. Every month she contributes R5,000 to a personal retirement annuity fund. Her annual income is then R1,060,000. The maximum tax-deductible contribution to retirement annuity is R291,500. Over the year she has contributed R60,000 to her retirement annuity fund, so the additional amount she may top up in her RA is R231,500 Tax-Free Savings Account You may contribute up to R36,000 to a tax-free savings account in a tax year. You must calculate how much you have contributed so far since 1 March last year and pay the additional amount to your tax-free savings account prior to the 28th of February, in order to make use of current tax year's allowance. You can also start a tax-free investment in the name of your children. Contact us today to top up your retirement annuity or tax-free investment - email service@daberistic.com As you are aware, the tax filing season for individual non-provisional taxpayers has started 1 July 2022. We would like to remind you to submit your tax return in good time. According to SARS official media release: - over 3 million taxpayers, have been auto-assessed by SARS and will not have to file a tax return if they are satisfied with the outcome. - Non-Provisional taxpayers who did not get an auto-assessment and who are required to file a return can do so from 1 July 2022 up until 24 Oct 2022. - Provisional taxpayers as well as Trust submissions can start with filing a return from 1 July 2022 until 23 January 2023. Click the links below for SARS announcements: https://www.sars.gov.za/media-... Filing Season 2022 for Individuals is now open Our resident tax practitioners' feedback is that many of the auto assessments received by our clients require corrections and adjustments, so don't just simply accept SARS' assessment. Review it and consult a tax practitioner if you need help. Tax Certificates By now you should have received tax certificates from financial institutions in the months of May and June to assist with your tax filing. These include tax certificates from the medical aid, banks, life insurance companies and investment companies. Check your email inbox and junk folder, search for the keyword "tax certificate" to find relevant emails. Download the attached tax certificates in a folder on your local drive or cloud storage for tax filing. Discovery Health: The email from Discovery Health looks like the following: You may ask Discovery to redeliver your tax certificates and tax summaries through their WhatsApp service on your smartphone: Ask Discovery WhatsApp Service You can access your communication in the secure inbox available through www.discovery.co.za and the mobile app. Allan Gray Investment The email from Allan Gray looks like the following: To view and download your tax certificates, log into your secure online account https://www.allangray.co.za, then navigate to Reports >> Tax certificates once you've logged in.
If you have difficulties downloading your tax certificates, or require the service of a tax practitioner, email to service@daberistic.com and our team will gladly assist you. Help South Africa - Do your tax filing On 23 February 2022, Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana delivered the annual budget speech, providing an update on South Africa’s finances. Low economic growth, vast unemployment, increasing debt levels, coupled with South Africa still being in a state of disaster two years since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, all contributed to a complicated juggling act for the Minister of Finance. Given the unrest witnessed in 2021 along with weak foreign investment, the 2022 budget had to be geared not only to curb unemployment and to stimulate economic growth, but to also give assurance to foreign investors. In the words of Minister Godongwana “we need to strike a critical balance between saving lives and livelihoods, while supporting inclusive growth. This budget presents this balance”. Last month I talked about Step 4 - Keep a record of your spend. Let's continue with Step 5 - Invest 15% of your earnings. Robert Kiyosaki, a leading personal finance and business coach of our time, advocates "Pay yourself first". People who choose to pay themselves first allocate money to the asset column of their balance sheet before they’ve paid their monthly expenses. Essentially, you set aside a specific amount of money right off the bat, and then live off what’s leftover. And that’s how wealth grows. In South Africa, this means putting 15% of your monthly pay into a retirement annuity, a tax-free investment, an offshore investment, or getting a business education or subscription. Let's unpack this. When I have my first meeting with new financial planning clients, one of the areas we cover is Personal Balance Sheet. Personal Balance Sheet essentially is a list of a person's assets and liabilities. At the end we calculate a person's Net Asset Value (NAV) by subtracting liabilities from assets. Many people have no ideas of what are assets, what are liabilities, and the differences between the two. They work hard, they try to get a better income. After many years, they wonder why they have little to show for it, and where money has gone to. They are busy paying everyone else, the taxman, banks, credit card companies, municipality, Eskom, DSTV, cellular providers. Then they have no money to pay themselves. So they go through their life, by the time they get to 40s or 50s, then realise they don't have enough saved up for retirement. It is important for us to instill in our teenage children, young adults the importance of savings, that they should start saving 15% of their income when they start their first job or business venture. Don't rely on what your employer would do for you. In the past, many corporates in South Africa would provide generous employee benefits, including a pension after retirement. Due to changes in accounting standards, increased competition and tougher economic environment, many corporates have cut back on employee benefits. Just about all have moved to Defined-Contribution arrangements, they no longer guarantee employees a pension after retirement. We need to educate our children (and ourselves) to create that financial nest egg ourselves. No one else is going to do it for us. Not the employer, not the government, not your parents. Starting early is key. If a young person in their twenties start their first job, and save 15% of their income every month, invest wisely, then by the time she gets to 65, she should have built up a retirement capital, a sum of money to draw an income from. What we call "comfortable retirement." Below is a chart illustrating a 25-year old earning R40,000 a month, saving 15% of her income per month (i.e. R6,000). Assume her income increases at 5% per annum, and she keeps her savings rate at 15%. Also assume she gets 8% return on her investments. At 65, the projected capital she will built up is R37 million. If she delays the decision to invest until age 35, i.e. she only starts saving 10 years later, then at 65, the projected capital she will build up is R23.4 million. See the chart below. While still significant, it is 37% less than if she had started at age 25. So a 10-year delay will cause her wealth at age 65 to reduce by 37%! Investment products for long-term investmentYou may consider using the following products for investing for long-term: Tax-free investment account: while limited to R3,000 per month or R36,000 per year contribution, you invest tax-free, and you can invest up to 100% offshore. Watch this video to get the basics of a Tax-Free Investment account: Retirement annuity: This is designed for saving for retirement, offers great tax benefits. Watch this video to understand the basics of a Retirement Annuity: Offshore investment: This allows you to invest in hard currencies such as the US Dollar, Euros and Pounds, by converting your Rands into these currencies and investing offshore. This is great for diversification, and accessing investment opportunities not available in South Africa. Unit trusts: This allows you to invest in a wide range of collective investment schemes. You should invest in a number of funds for diversification, and your portfolio should be suitable for your risk profile. Endowment policy: This forces you to invest for a minimum period of five years, investment growth is taxed within the policy, so when it pays out you receive the proceeds tax free. Watch this video to understand the basics of an endowment policy: Contact us today at service@daberistic.com if you would like to speak to a Financial Advisor, on how best you can invest 15% of your money, to create your wealth.
Finance Minister Tito Mboweni gave his budget speech on 24 February. Overall it is a taxpayer and investor friendly budget. Old Mutual has a nice summary of tax changes, we share with readers below. |
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