The SARS provisional tax data is normally uploaded by SARS 60 days from the payment date. Do not retrieve IRP6 forms from within Sky Tax until you are satisfied that the data has been uploaded by SARS as you only get one chance. You should test a few on SARS eFiling to see if the data is there.
Owing to the fact that the data is uploaded so early there will be timing differences on the last assessment and on the SARS records. Please see the definition in regard to the basic amount and the SARS practice note on provisional tax.
In past periods there have been various errors in the downloads of the IRP6 data, we don’t know what this year holds, however there will certainly be timing differences: -
1. In some instances, blank IRP6 data have been downloaded. In fact, if the last assessed income is over R1million SARS leaves the figure blank as they want you to do an accurate calculation.
2. The wrong assessment has been downloaded, for example a 2015 assessment has been used where a 2016 assessment should have been used.
3. SARS tends to do their uploads 60 days prior or even earlier and the wrong figure may be used, but sometimes they are late.
Clearly, we have no control over these discrepancies in the data. It’s best that where the SARS data is wrong that users revert their provisional tax calculations to their own data, i.e. the assessment that was downloaded as this is the safest procedure to follow.
You can always download assessments at any time which will reflect on the provisional tax ledger. In our latest version the system downloads the assessments which can be done automatically and with the IRP6 download.
