This page explains how SA Tax Guide’s guides and tools are made, checked, and corrected — so you can judge for yourself how much weight to give them.
Start with official sources
Every guide starts from official SARS guidance first, then gov.za and legislation where relevant, then reputable South African tax publishers for context. Competitor pages are never copied: not their wording, not their structure, and not their tables. A guide may cover the same topic as another site, but its explanation, order, and examples are written from the official source and from the task itself.
One guide, one job
Each guide answers one main question and carries one focus topic. If two search phrases mean the same thing, they are covered in one guide. If they ask for different outcomes — for example, checking a refund versus arranging time to pay — they get separate guides. That keeps each guide focused and stops the same steps being repeated across five pages. The ten guides on this site follow that rule, and the homepage overview exists only to map them, not to repeat them.
What counts as a fact here
A procedure, deadline, rate, or contact route is only stated when it can be traced to an official source. Where a detail cannot be verified, it is left out rather than guessed. Calculator inputs are stated openly: the Income Tax and PAYE tools use the 2026/27 individual brackets checked on 20 October 2026 against SARS guidance, and the penalty tool asks you to enter the rate from your own SARS notice instead of inventing one. VAT is stated at 15% because that is the rate used across this site’s tools and guides.
Tools are checked the same way as text
A tool is not treated as finished because its code runs. Its inputs, its result labels, and its limits are checked against the guide it sits with: every result says it is an estimate or guidance only, and the status checkers say plainly that they do not look up a live record. A tool that would need a tax number, an ID number, or a password to work is not built — guidance, not a fake lookup, is the honest version.
Corrections
When a reader points out a mistake, or an official SARS page changes, the guide is corrected and the correction is described in plain terms on the affected page where it matters. A correction that changes a step, a rate, or a channel is treated as more important than a wording tweak, and it is made first. Suggestions for new topics are judged the same way as existing guides: one clear job, official sources first, no invented detail.
Who this policy covers
This policy covers the homepage overview, all ten detailed guides, the Blog listing, and the eight homepage tools. It does not cover official SARS pages linked from this site — those follow SARS’s own rules.