WITH just six weeks to go to the end of tax season, SARS has already received 4 166 243 individual income tax returns. This figure also includes 1 217 428 returns received for previous years of assessment.

Of those, over 1.4 million returns were submitted via eFiling, while over 1.5 million returns were submitted electronically at a SARS branch by taxpayers who prefer face-to-face interaction with trained branch consultants.

The revenue service has encouraged taxpayers to submit their tax returns via eFiling.

Those taxpayers who need guidance when filing their returns via eFiling can use Help-You-eFile, an online service which connects taxpayers to a SARS agent telephonically in order to navigate eFiling.