Smart Fuel Tracking: Save Money and Simplify Claims
Fuel is the biggest variable cost of business travel and easy to under-claim. How to track fuel for SARS, the two ways to claim it, and which method usually wins.
Expert guides on SARS compliance, mileage tracking, and maximising your business expense claims in South Africa.
Fuel is the biggest variable cost of business travel and easy to under-claim. How to track fuel for SARS, the two ways to claim it, and which method usually wins.
Travel allowance or reimbursive travel? They are taxed and claimed differently. A plain-English guide for South Africans, with the current SARS prescribed rate and how to claim each.
SARS accepts a digital logbook if it meets a few conditions. Here is the complete checklist of what each trip must record, how long to keep it, and what triggers a closer look.
Only business travel is deductible. Here is how South African taxpayers separate business from private mileage, handle a mixed-use vehicle, and keep a claim that holds up to SARS.
How to scan and store receipts so they hold up at SARS tax time: capture early, keep them legible, file by category, and back them up. For SA freelancers.
SARS rate per km for 2027 is R4.95. Travel allowance vs reimbursive travel, the deemed-cost table, a worked example, and how to claim with a logbook.
Claiming travel on your ITR12: source codes 3701-3703 for employees, vehicle expenses for sole proprietors, the logbook rule, and deemed vs actual cost.
A practical guide to what a SARS audit or verification of expense claims actually involves - how to prepare, what SARS looks for, how to respond, and why your records are your only real protection.
How to keep a SARS-compliant mileage logbook in South Africa: the required fields, the mistakes that cost taxpayers deductions, and how to pass an audit.
Five legitimate SARS deductions South African freelancers and independent contractors overlook, and the records you need to claim every rand owed.
The expenses South African sole proprietors and freelancers can claim from SARS in 2026: what is fully deductible, what is partial, and the records to keep.
The founder shares her personal journey from losing thousands in claims due to misplaced receipts to creating Expenstry - a solution born from real frustration while working in the South African construction industry.