GAUTAX | NB Individuals Filling Season 2025 Info and Change
Individual Tax
Filing Season 2025
When must your tax return be submitted?
To avoid penalties it is very important that your tax return is submitted within these dates:
21 July 2025 to 20 October 2025 for:
NB: THIS DATE HAS BEEN REDUCED BY 30 DAYS SINCE PREVIOUS YEARS!
- Taxpayers who file online
- Taxpayers who cannot file online can do so at a SARS branch by appointment only.
21 July 2025 to 19 January 2026 for:
- Provisional taxpayers including Trusts may file via eFiling or SARS MobiApp.
Need help with your Tax?
All members of our team are available to meet and answer your questions and assist as they can.
Individual filing open date
Taxpayers, we are ready to start filing your Tax from 21 July this year.
Please send all the information we require before 30 September 2025 to enable us to make the deadline.
We are here to assist you professionally as registered Tax Practitioners for 28 years
What are the tax return rates for the 2025 tax year?
Tax rates are the values that are payable to SARS by law. Here are the tax rates based on income earned during the 2025 tax year.
| Taxable income (R) | Rates of tax (R) |
|---|---|
|
0 – 237 100 |
18% of each R1 |
|
237 101 – 370 500 |
R42 678 + 26% of the amount above R237 100 |
|
370 501 – 512 800 |
R77 362 + 31% of the amount above R370 500 |
|
512 801 – 673 000 |
R121 475 + 36% of the amount above R512 800 |
|
673 001 – 857 900 |
R179 147 + 39% of the amount above R673 000 |
|
857 901 – 1 817 000 |
R251 258 + 41% of the amount above R857 900 |
|
1 817 001 and above |
R644 489 + 45% of the amount above R1 817 000 |
Important changes to the auto assessment this year
SARS has warned that a significant number of individual taxpayers will be auto-assessed this year by SARS, and this process will start from 1 July 2025. Contact us when you receive such an SMS if you are selected to be auto-assessed so we can ensure you get assessed correctly.
Do not just accept what SARS is telling you. When you receive the SMS, contact us immediately!
If you are not in agreement with the Auto assessment, you can access your tax return via eFiling or SARS MobiApp, and choose to EDIT the return and then contact us to assist.
Auto-Assessment Process for 2025
Auto-Assessments will be issued from 1 July 2025 to 20 July 2025 at 20:00.
If taxpayers and/or practitioners are not in agreement with the estimated assessment, they will have until 20 October 2025 to file an amended return. Auto Assessments issued after this date will have a period of 40 working days in which an amended return must be filed.
More information can be found here
Taxpayers are reminded to ensure that they meet the required deadlines as the correction of returns post the deadlines are extremely difficult and time-consuming.
Gautax Pro Tip:
Auto registration for Personal Income
When you register for SARS eFiling for the first time and you do not yet have a personal income tax number, SARS will automatically register you and issue a tax reference number.
What is SARS Auto-Assessment?
An Auto-Assessment is a pre-calculation of your tax obligation by SARS based on the information provided to them by 3rd parties. To agree to the pre-calculation, you log into your efiling and Accept the auto-assessment. If you do not agree there is still an Edit function on the assessment.
Taxpayers, your tax matters, SARS continue to make it easier for you to comply. Starting July, SARS will be assessing a significant number of taxpayers automatically. If you accept the auto-assessment then SARS automatically files the return on your behalf, you then don’t need to do the return yourself. This enables you to view, accept or edit your proposed assessment from the comfort of your home or place of work using eFiling or SARS MobiApp.
SARS auto-assess returns based on the data we receive from employers, financial institutions, medical schemes, retirement annuity fund administrators and other 3rd party data providers. If you have not yet received your IRP5/IT3(a)s and other tax certificates like medical certificate, retirement annuity fund certificate and other 3rd party data that are relevant in determining your tax obligations, you should immediately approach your employer or medical scheme or retirement annuity fund or other 3rd party data providers to make sure that they have complied with their submission requirements.
Gautax will take care of it all
Sit back relax and let us handle your personal income tax return submissions for you. We will follow best practices to get you, our client the best possible result. That is keeping you up to date with SARS laws and possibly more returned to your pocket than you thought possible.
2 Simple Steps
Step 1
Call us on +27 (0)11 454 2099 or complete our online application form.
Step 2
Get the following relevant documents ready to send to us. Then sit back and relax
- Copies of all IRP5’s/IT3(a) – excluding ones prepared via Gautax monthly payroll services.
- IT3(b)/IT3(c) for interest and Capital Gains Tax Income. ( all Bank accounts and Investments)
- Retirement Annuity Certificates.
- Medical Aid Tax Certificates.
- Details of medical expenses paid by you and not covered by your medical scheme
- Foreign Dividends and Interest.
- Completed confirmation of diagnosis of disability
- Did you sell, buy or rent out any property? Then we need all the relevant info.
- Logbook with the vehicle details (a logbook is a mandatory requirement if you receive a travel allowance or had a company vehicle)
- Commission/Contractor summary of all expenses incurred in the production of Income
- Sole Trader Income and expenses if trading as a business.
- Home-Office Claims ( Contact us for the detail information we require)
