Tax help in Pretoria

Pretoria is inside the City of Tshwane, and so is Centurion. A department salary, an SOE payslip, and a Menlyn or Highveld corporate salary are typically employment income with PAYE already withheld. Section 23(m) is the usual gate: the uniform, the commute into the CBD, and the canteen do not become deductions because the employer is the state.

Hatfield and Brooklyn also have professional practices — attorneys, doctors, accountants — where the person has a trade rather than only a salary. Those years can look completely different from a departmental IRP5. The profession pages separate that case. This page does not pretend every Pretoria resident has a practice.

Public-sector and corporate IRP5s in Tshwane often already include pension or provident contributions (commonly source codes in the 4001–4003 range) and medical-aid figures. Those are assessed from the certificate, not rediscovered as a city perk. A retirement annuity you pay yourself is the section 11F contribution, capped nationally.

A two-pot savings withdrawal is taxed at your marginal rate. It is not a Pretoria table and it is not the retirement lump-sum table. If you withdrew during the year, the statement shows the cash arriving and the tax already taken; the return still has to reflect it. The two-pot articles walk through code 3926.

Tshwane electricity, rates, and water on a personal cheque account are household costs. They are not an income-tax deduction for a salaried employee. A home office that meets the exclusive-use test can apportion some occupancy costs, and even then mortgage interest is out for employees (Interpretation Note 28).

Filing is still eFiling. There is no Tshwane income-tax return beside the national one. Taxzi is estimate assistance: you review the lines, you or a registered practitioner file.