Tag: worldwide income

South African Tax Residency and the Foreign Employment Income Exemption

Johannesburg skyline at sunset, representing South Africans working abroad who remain tied to South African tax residency and worldwide income rules

Moving abroad for work is not the same thing as leaving the South African tax system. Many South Africans working overseas assume that once they are out of the country, or once they stop applying for local jobs, SARS no longer has an interest in their income. That is not how it works, and getting…