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Travel deduction
What a SARS logbook saves you on a travel allowance: cost scale against actual cost.
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Budget · expense tracker
Track what you spend — and what SARS lets you claim
Log each expense once: date, amount, category and a note. The tracker adds up every month by category and keeps a running tax-deductible total for the SARS year, March to February.
What it does
- Monthly totals by category — a table of each category across the twelve months of the tax year, with the year total.
- A tax-deductible total for the SARS year — flag an expense as vehicle, home office, medical or other, and see each total for 1 March to the end of February.
- Vehicle costs feed the travel deduction — fuel, insurance, maintenance and finance charges you log become the running costs in the travel deduction calculator’s actual-cost method.
- Download any tax year as a CSV — open it in Excel or hand it to your tax practitioner.
- Nothing is saved in your browser — expenses are stored with your MaxWealth account, and you can export or delete them from your account page.
What it does not do (yet)
- No bank-statement import and no receipt scanning — you type each expense. Keep the slips: SARS asks for the proof, not the log.
A flagged total is what you logged, not what SARS will allow. Medical costs are claimed through the medical tax credit, a home office only if you meet SARS’s home office rules, and vehicle costs only against a travel allowance with a logbook — see how a logbook saves you tax.
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