What is Output VAT?
The VAT a registered vendor charges customers on its taxable sales and must account for to SARS.
Once you are registered, you must add VAT at the applicable rate to your taxable sales and issue valid tax invoices. That VAT is output tax and belongs to SARS, not to your business.
On each VAT201 you declare the output tax for the period and subtract your input tax. If output exceeds input you pay the difference; if input exceeds output you claim a refund.
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