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Guides and updates for South Africa

How Coinfig can help you avoid overpaying crypto tax

Missing purchase records and overlooked losses can overstate your crypto gains. Learn how Coinfig helps you prepare more complete figures for tax season.

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Understand your crypto numbers before you explain them

Bring your crypto records together, find missing transactions, and understand your tax calculations before filing or talking to a practitioner.

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Does Coinfig share my data with SARS?

Before connecting your crypto accounts, understand Coinfig's data policy, read-only access, source deletion and the limits on disclosure to SARS.

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Coinfig doesn't need your ID to calculate crypto tax

Coinfig calculates from wallets, exchanges and CSVs. Sign-up is an email or SSO. No ID documents, and your ID and tax numbers stay optional.

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How Coinfig protects your crypto data

How Coinfig encrypts exchange credentials, hosts your records in South Africa, and aligns its controls to ISO 27001. Certification is in progress, not granted.

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Why a tax practitioner and Coinfig are better together for crypto tax

Coinfig gets your crypto transaction history into shape. A qualified tax practitioner helps you make the judgment calls, file correctly, and deal with SARS when your circumstances are more complex.

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How to declare crypto on your ITR12 in SARS eFiling

A step-by-step walkthrough for declaring crypto on your ITR12 in SARS eFiling for Filing Season 2026. Covers records, capital gains, income, and deadlines.

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Undeclared crypto gains? How the SARS Voluntary Disclosure Programme works

Worried about crypto gains you never declared to SARS? Here is how the Voluntary Disclosure Programme works, what relief it gives, and why timing matters now.

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Provisional tax for crypto traders in South Africa

Trade crypto often or earn it as income? You may already be a provisional taxpayer. Here are the IRP6 deadlines, how to estimate, and what underpaying costs.

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How SARS taxes crypto in South Africa

An overview of how SARS treats crypto asset gains, including revenue vs capital, the annual exclusion of R40,000 for 2026 and R50,000 from the 2027 tax year, FIFO cost basis, and what records you need before you file.

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SARS and your crypto data: how CARF reporting actually works

You keep hearing that SARS now sees every crypto trade. Here is what CARF actually changes for Luno, VALR and offshore users, the dates that matter in 2026 and 2027, and what to do about it.

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Crypto tax in South Africa: do I owe SARS, and how do I calculate it?

If you sold, swapped, spent, or earned crypto during the year, here is how to tell whether you owe SARS, what makes the calculation hard, and how to get your history in order before you file.

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How SARS taxes staking, mining and airdrops in South Africa

Crypto you earn from staking, mining or airdrops is usually income to SARS at its rand value on the day you receive it, taxed at your marginal rate. Here's how it works, including when a fortuitous airdrop is treated differently, and what to keep.

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