Section 7F (ITA) – Deduction of interest to SARS

7F. Deduction of interest repaid to SARS

In determining the taxable income derived by any person during a year of assessment, any amount of interest paid by SARS to that person under a tax Act and deemed to have accrued to that person in terms of section 7E that has to be repaid by that person to SARS, to the extent that the amount of interest is or was included in the taxable income of that person, must be deducted from that person’s income in the year of assessment during which that amount is repaid to SARS.

[Section 7F inserted by section 11(1) of Act 23 of 2018 and substituted by section 5 of Act 34 of 2019]