Hi

I am working for a company that gives me the benefit of a company vehicle, of which I pay a company perk tax, understandably, as agreed when signing my contract.

However, my finance manager has called me in today to tell me that the company/finance manager has not been deducting the perk tax off my salary for the last 7 months during my employment, which is the amount of R11500 and that I am now liable to pay this money back??

The finance manager says that I should have said something if I noticed that it wasn’t on my payslip??? (Isn’t that his job to know this, as he pays m salary??) It says nowhere in my contract that I should be aware of this tax coming off my salary on my payslip?

I was never aware that I wasn’t being taxed in the first place, as I work in the sales department and not in HR, as I had assumed the tax was being deducted already?

The company/finance manager is also telling me that they are going to put the R11500 on the payslip as a loan to me from the company, and that I have to sign an AOD with a maximum term of 12 months to pay this amount back, which will be just under R1000 p/month.

So going forward the finance manager is telling me that I will now be paying company perk tax from the end of this month +- R1000, as well as paying the additional R1000 on top of that, which I will never be able to afford, as I am barely getting by at the moment.

I am not sure where I stand in this situation as it was not my fault that they had not been deducting the money?

And if I am liable to pay this back, surely they should allow me to pay it back over a longer term?

I will appreciate all the advice and help.

Thanking you kindly