Tasleem Gierdien27 June 2025 | 4:13
South African Revenue Services (SARS) announces 2025 tax season: 7 July to 20 October 2025
The category of taxpayers who are automatically assessed will receive notification from SARS from 7 to 20 July 2025.
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The South African Revenue Service (SARS) announced the official start of the 2025 Filing Season, effective from 7 July 2025 to 20 October 2025.
Income Tax return filing dates:
- Auto-assessments: 7 – 20 July 2025
- Filing season opens for non-provisional taxpayers who were not auto-assessed: 21 July – 20 October 2025
- Provisional taxpayers: 21 July – 19 January 2026
- Trusts can start filing tax returns from 20 September 2025 until 19 January 2026.
The category of taxpayers who are automatically assessed will receive notification from SARS from 7 – 20 July 2025.
Taxpayers who do not receive an Auto Assessment notification from SARS and are required to file a tax return can do so from 21 July 2025.
Auto-assessment will work as follows:
- From 7 July, SARS will send an email or SMS to taxpayers notifying them that their assessment has been automatically calculated.
- Refunds will be paid directly into the taxpayer’s bank account within 72 business hours after the notification. Money owed to SARS must be paid to SARS through online banking, eFiling, or the SARS MobiApp by the stipulated date.
- Taxpayers can access their auto-assessments through any of SARS’s channels, such as SARS MobiApp or eFiling. Taxpayers should review and verify the completeness and accuracy of the information that resulted in the auto-assessment.
- Taxpayers who are satisfied that the auto-assessment is correct do not have to do anything further.
- If the taxpayer finds that there is missing or inaccurate information about either income or expenses, which may have affected the outcome, it must be declared to SARS by submitting a tax return in the normal way.