11     Interest on late payment

 

(1)     If an employer fails to pay a levy or any portion thereof on the last day for payment thereof, as contemplated in section 6(1), (1A) or 7(4), interest is payable on the outstanding amount at the rate contemplated in paragraph (b) of the definition of “prescribed rate” in section 1 of the Income Tax Act, calculated from the day following that last day for payment to the day that payment is received by the Commissioner, SETA or approved body, as the case may be.

[Subsection (1) substituted by section 23 of Act 33 of 2019]

 

(2)     The Commissioner may prescribe by notice in the Gazette that any interest payable in terms of this section be calculated on the daily balance owing and compounded monthly, and such method of determining interest will apply from such date as the Commissioner may prescribe.

[Section 11 substituted by section 123 of Act 74 of 2002 and by section 45 of Act 18 of 2009]