Need some advice here... My employer has paid too little PAYE to SARS for the year. They gave me a R5000 travel allowance, thinking it is not taxable and to bring my basic salary down to a lower tax bracket. As you could have predicted, this resulted in me owing SARS thousands of rands. The trouble is that I have been trying to negotiate with my employer for months to adjust the travel allowance as my car is paid off and I don't travel enough business kilometres to justify R5000. She remained adamant that she will pay what she sees fit, based on her accountant's judgment (her elderly mother is the accountant). I am not trained in accounting and in retrospect I should have done further research earlier. I have to add that her mother loaded my income to SARS without the TA, which first had to be rectified through her newly employed accountant. She told the new accountant that I did not keep a logbook throughout the year, which is false. Coincidence? Edit: salary is cost to company based, so they weren't trying to skim on tax expenses. I have told my employer that I am struggling financially because of this error, but she distances herself from it and still demands that I continue to travel to the office for work in December that I can do at home or even discuss over the phone if needed. We travel to clients until November, which I happily do. Just interested to hear what my options are. I don't want to alienate my relationship with my boss, but when is it enough? On a side note, she once cancelled a client's contract for religious reasons, just telling her she is restructuring the business (that did not go well).
