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Guide – Which employees pay PAYE Tax in SA
Understanding your tax duties can be tricky, mainly with Pay As You Earn (PAYE) tax in South Africa. This detailed guide will help you understand employee tax duties. Let’s discover which employees pay PAYE tax.
4 min article
Tshwane universities unite in feasibility research for SA tax clinics project
Tshwane University of Technology (TUT), University of Pretoria (UP) and University of South Africa (Unisa) launched a collaborative research project early in May 2025, to determine the feasibility and sustainability of establishing South African tax clinics to provide free tax education and support to unrepresented taxpayers.
4 min article
SARS turns up the heat on tax dodgers
The taxman is getting a serious financial upgrade from the National Treasury and are investing an extra R4-Billion this financial year on top of the R7,5-Billion already budgeted for the next three years. This is aimed at sharpening the revenue service tools, tightening compliance and hunting down those who still owe the taxman.
2 min 50 second video
Reaction to the national budget 2025
With the last two attempts scuppered by a standoff over VAT hike that has since been scrapped; the estimated revenue shortfall sits at approximately R75BN. Keith Engel, Chief Executive Officer at the South African Institute of Taxation, shares his views.
5 min video
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"I have always found the staff at the SA Institute of Tax Practitioners a pleasure to work with. I often present seminars or provide input to legislation through or alongside Keitumetse Sesana who, like her colleagues, I find to be extremely professional whilst simultaneously warm and welcoming. I am proud to be a member of SAIT and to align with what it represents to me: a body which strives to ensure its tax partitioner members are well-educated in the field of taxation and that they follow a code of conduct that ensures that taxes are properly paid in an efficient manner to the mutual benefit of both their clients and the SA Revenue Service (Prof D. Tickle; 14-03-2025; CTA(SA))"
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