Taxpayers, tax practitioners given e-filing extension

Taxpayers have again waited for the last two weeks of the Tax Season to submit their income tax returns to Sars.

To date 850 000 returns have been submitted via eFiling and Sars expects that this number may more than double before the submission deadline.

However, it seems that many people require assistance from Sars with their eFiling logon and password details. This is putting immense pressure on the its Contact Centre even though taxpayers and tax practitioners who have forgotten their password or login details can visit www.sarsefiling.co.za where they can resolve this online rather than over the telephone.

Since the start of this year Sars has also received numerous requests from tax practitioners for more time to submit the returns of their clients.

For these reasons Sars has decided on the following-

• Taxpayers using eFiling have until February 5 2009 to submit their income tax returns electronically.
• Taxpayers who continue to encounter problems to access the call centre are advised to go to a Sars branch office for assistance.
• Until January 23 2009 - the initial deadline - Sars will be able to complete and capture 
  

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SARS extension Very clumsily worded - could have been two thirds shorter by Hugh on January 19 2009, 07:45 Find this comment inappropriate? Report it

Easy file We kept track of all the times that e-filing or the web site was just not availabe. The time was substantial the past two weeks! Easy file itself was XTREMELY slow and on some days returns were submitted at the rate of one return per hour! On the 5th . .more of January, Easy file would for some reason or another not open with our username. (It was absolutely correct) and SARS kept telling us that we are using the incorrect username. We tried again the next day and the same problem persists. Viola! On Wednesday the 7th we could at last use Easy file with the same username. (As it was used on all the preceding days and months!) Was it only Blondie experiencing these problems? . .less by blondie on January 19 2009, 13:38 Find this comment inappropriate? Report it

Avoid the January rush .... .... efile at 2:30 in the morning. by Gatiep on January 19 2009, 21:01 Find this comment inappropriate? Report it

eFiling ext The document seems incomplete? Do not fullly understand last reason of SARS's by Sucaba on January 20 2009, 06:47 Find this comment inappropriate? Report it

what went wrong and who is liable? i was sent a summons for not completing my tax return for 2007. when i eventually submitted it and was rewarded with a quick response and a pay out. when i went to the cape town branch on 21 january to submit my information for 2008 i was told that it . .more had already been filed. I responded by asking the lady how that was possible ileft there very disappointed and frustrated and now it seems that i did something wrong but i think whoever captured my details made a huge mistake and now i have to take the blame . i think that is very unfair because i am still sitting with mi irp5 for 2008 and do not know what to do. please respond . .less by a c van der byl on February 02 2009, 15:04 Find this comment inappropriate? Report it

delay in having report issued by SARS It has taken nearly a month to have a report issued by SARS to enable me to access efiling - as a result I am late to fill in my tax. Can i claim an extension? by Rosemary on February 11 2009, 17:25 Find this comment inappropriate? Report it

my tax returns why my tax is not paid till today by khayalethu alexander van der berg on September 03 2010, 09:14 Find this comment inappropriate? Report it

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