VAT · ZAR
South Africa
SARS dated 2026 tax-rate guidance and its VAT update history.
These references are not an approval of a tax rate. The calculator applies a percentage you enter manually. Selecting South Africa changes the currency, not the applicable tax rules.
Official reference pages
- Other taxes - VAT South African Revenue ServicePage content read during source research. Full rule validation remains pending.
- Value-Added Tax and update history South African Revenue ServicePage content read during source research. Full rule validation remains pending.
What still needs validation
An official 2025 increase guide remains discoverable despite the subsequent reversal. Do not implement the abandoned increase; reconcile current legislation, exceptions and dates before release.
Before a rate can become a preset
Each executable rule needs a specific legal citation, jurisdiction, transaction category, tax base, effective period, exceptions and rounding policy. It also needs independent expected-result tests and recorded human approval. A retrieval date is not an effective date or a tax-professional sign-off.
Calculation method
For a single proportional percentage, add tax using net × rate ÷ 100. To extract included tax, divide the total by (1 + rate ÷ 100). This manual method does not determine whether that percentage legally applies.
Read the calculation and rounding limitations