Ensure you don’t pay tax on pension earned outside SA
Foreign country may however still tax the amounts paid out
02 January 2020 - 15:34
The rules are different for a pension earned from an SA source as to one accumulated while working outside SA.
As a general rule a pension received from a foreign source will be exempt from tax in SA, while a pension from a local source is fully taxable in SA. ..
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