2023 SARS Auto-Assessments

A SARS Auto-Assessment is an automatic assessment issued by SARS to certain taxpayers. SARS will use data collected from employers, financial institutions, medical schemes, retirement annuity fund administrators and other 3rd party data providers to generate the assessment automatically, without any input from you.

If you are selected for an auto-assessment you will get a notification via SMS or email between 1 July and 7 July 2023. We suggest that you do not accept the auto-assessment unless you double-check that SARS received all of your tax certificates. Please remember that rental properties, donations, travel expenses, home office expenses, medical expenses paid by yourself and other income might not be added to your auto-assessment, and therefore you will accept an incorrect the auto-assessment.

If you accept the auto-assessment, and it is incorrect and not all the income was declared then SARS can levy a penalty of up to 200% of the tax payable plus interest.