AFTER almost 20 years of helping South Africans navigate their finances, I've seen the same look of dread on clients' faces every July when tax season rolls around. This year feels different though.

The 2024 tax season, as confirmed by the South African Revenue Service (SARS), will start on Monday, 15 July. This year’s tax season will run until Monday, 21 October 2024 for individual taxpayers, ...

Can the SARS auto-assessments be wrong? How will SARS know if I'm lying? If I get SARS to help me online or in-branch, I won't have any problems, right? Scorpion answers these questions and more.