There are many ways in which taxpayers can find themselves owing SARS a tax debt, and this is an issue that cannot be postponed or ignored – immediate action is required to prevent SARS from exercising their wide powers of debt collection.
In this article, we look at how tax debts arise; how taxpayers are notified; what your options are when you don’t dispute the tax debt but can’t pay; and what must be done if you do want to dispute the tax debt. There are, fortunately, ways for taxpayers to make a payment arrangement, request a compromise, and ask for a suspension of payment during a tax dispute, all of which are best addressed with professional tax assistance to avoid SARS’ debt collection process.