Sars pays out R10bn in refunds

The taxman has already auto-assessed 5.8 million taxpayers for this tax season.

- Tshehla Cornelius Koteli

Taxpayers who were not auto-assessed by the South African Revenue Service (Sars) should have started filing for their tax returns from this week.

The taxman completed auto-assessing taxpayers on Sunday, paying out more than R10 billion in tax refunds.

Tax season 2025 is scheduled to run until 20 October for non-provisional taxpayers and until 19 January 2026, for provisional taxpayers.

The taxman said it has already auto-assessed 5.8 million taxpayers for this tax season, which is an increase from the five million auto-assessed in 2024.