According to the 2013 Tax Statistics publication, tabled by Sars and National Treasury on Monday, this was R71.2bn more than during the 2011/12 fiscal year.
Personal income tax, including Paye, totalled R276.7bn (31.4% of revenue collected). A total of 15.4 million individuals were registered, of whom 5 881 019 were liable to submit returns.Company income tax collected during 2012/13 amounted to R160.9bn (26.7% of revenue). This involved 2.2 million registered companies, of which 742 448 were liable to submit returns.
Value-Added Tax (VAT) netted R215bn (24.7% of revenue) and import VAT and other customs duties collected totalled R39bn.
According to the document, the tax-to-GDP ratio increased marginally from 25% in 2011/12, to 25.3% last year (2012/13).
"This is close to the long-term average, but well below the peaks of more than 27% reached before the [2008/9] financial crisis."
The individual tax register grew strongly.
"The number of individuals registered for income tax as at March 31 [this year] increased by 1.7 million (12.5%), from 13.7 million in the previous year to 15.4m."
On the same date, there were nearly 2.2 million registered companies, of which 800 000 were liable to submit returns and nearly 700 000 registered VAT vendors.