2017 Tax Statistics

"The National Treasury and SARS jointly publish tax statistics annually. These aggregated statistics are compiled from SARS’s registers of taxpayers and from tax returns. These statistics complement other published social and economic data." The 2017 Tax statistics publication has been released. "The 2017 edition of the Tax Statistics publication provides an overview of tax revenue collections and tax return information for the 2013 to 2016 tax years as well as the 2012/13 to 2016/17 fiscal years. This 10th edition also provides a snapshot of the key trends of the past decade and is accompanied by a companion volume of detailed tables on revenue collection and data pertaining to all the major tax types for the years 2007/08 to 2016/17.

The objective of this publication is to present comprehensive tax revenue data in a manner that will complement and help contextualise economic and demographic data provided by other publications. It contains more detailed and varied tax revenue data that complements publications such as the National Treasury’s Budget Reviews and SARS’ Annual Reports."