Take your time to check your return before you accept an auto-assessment from Sars. Picture: 123RF/ADIRUCH
If you have been sent such an SMS, you can accept the assessment and submit your pre-populated return on the MobiApp or e-filing platform, but before you do, be sure that Sars has all the correct information. While Sars is making it easy for you to click accept and submit the pre-populated return, be careful not to be too quick to submit — even if it looks like you are owed a tempting refund.
Griffiths says that as it is very tricky to check your figures from the assessment, it is best to choose “Edit Return”, which will take you to the familiar “Returns Issued” page on eFiling or the MobiApp. If the auto-assessment is not correct, you can edit your return on the eFiling site or the MobiApp. You can then use the online tax calculator to work out how Sars will assess your tax.
Griffiths says early indications are that taxpayers who have travel allowances, make tax deductible donations, or who have medical expenses over and above those that are reflected on their medical scheme certificates, should definitely not accept the auto-assessments. If you accept the auto-assessment then realise you omitted to claim a deduction, you can use the “Request Correction” facility on efiling or the MobiApp and resubmit the return with the full information.
Kieswetter told a Sars briefing last week that some taxpayers who had already submitted returns attempted to defraud Sars by claiming rental or business losses and disability expenses. Kieswetter says Sars really wants you to fill in your return in the comfort of your own home and has trained 1,000 agents to take your calls and guide you through the return if you get stuck.
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