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Can your employer ask you to pay a fee (R40) to email a duplicate copy of your IRP5 to you?

Posted 31 October 2013

Can your employer ask you to pay a fee (R40) to email a duplicate copy of your IRP5 to you? Is this best practice or legislated? if this information is yours already why then do they have a right to charge you for what is rightfully yours?

TaxTim TaxTim says:
31 October 2013 at 19:58

No they cannot legally request money from you for a copy of your IRP5 which they have an obligation to provide you.

Anushka says:
1 November 2013 at 11:08

So even they have provided you with one copy already and you would like another, can they charge you for the extra copy?

TaxTim TaxTim says:
1 November 2013 at 11:49

As a company they can do whatever they wish to, but there is no legal framework which allows them to charge you an additional fee. It must therefore be their company policy, but nothing something set out in the Tax legislation. They should be providing you this for free.

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