Tax Services
Value-adding tax services that keep your business compliant and tax-efficient. We handle registrations, returns and planning across all the taxes a South African business has to manage.
What's included
- SARS tax registration (Income Tax, PAYE, VAT)
- VAT returns (VAT201) and reconciliations
- Provisional tax (IRP6) and annual returns (ITR14)
- PAYE, UIF and SDL submissions (EMP201 / EMP501)
- Tax clearance (Tax Compliance Status) PINs
- SARS dispute resolution and tax planning
Tax is not one obligation, it is a calendar. A company with employees and a VAT registration is dealing with SARS most months of the year, across several tax types, each with its own return, its own deadline and its own way of going wrong.
We handle the recurring work: VAT201s, provisional tax, the annual return, and the exceptional work when an assessment is wrong or a compliance status fails. Below are the specific services; if you are not sure which you need, start with a conversation rather than a form.
Go straight to what you need
The obligations run on different clocks
This is the structural reason businesses fall behind despite paying attention. The deadlines do not share a start point, so being current on one says nothing about the others.
VAT follows your filing category. Payroll follows the tax year, March to February. Provisional tax and the ITR14 follow your own financial year end. A company with a June year end has an entirely different calendar from one with a February year end.
- VAT201, monthly or every two months, by filing category
- EMP201, monthly, within 7 days of month end
- Provisional tax: six months in, at year end, and an optional top-up
- ITR14, twelve months after your financial year end
- EMP501, twice a year, on the payroll tax year
Compliance and planning are different work
Compliance is meeting the obligations accurately and on time. Planning is structuring transactions and decisions before they happen, so the compliance outcome is one you chose.
Most of the value in planning is available only in advance. Once a transaction has occurred the options narrow to reporting it correctly, which is why the useful conversations happen before year end rather than while the return is being prepared.
What we will not do
We will not promise that a filing avoids a SARS query, verification and audit selection are SARS’s to make, and any advisor claiming otherwise is selling something. We will not take an aggressive position we cannot document, because the person who carries that risk is you, years later, under query.
What we do commit to is filings that are prepared from reconciled records, positions that are documented at the time they are taken, and being told plainly when a dispute is not worth running.
Before you get in touch
Which taxes does my company actually have to deal with? +
It depends on what you do. Almost every company deals with income tax and provisional tax. Employers add PAYE, UIF and usually SDL. VAT applies once you are registered, compulsorily or voluntarily. We establish the actual list rather than assuming.
Can you take over from our current accountant? +
Yes. The handover covers the SARS profile, the outstanding filings and the last reconciled position, so nothing falls through the gap between providers.
We are behind on several returns. Is that a problem? +
It is common and it is fixable. Returns are prepared in sequence, then penalties and interest are addressed once the underlying non-compliance is corrected, remission is far easier to argue in that order.
Do you handle SARS queries and audits? +
Yes. Responding properly to a verification is largely about having the supporting documents organised, which is why we prepare filings on the assumption they may be queried.
Talk to us about tax services
Tell us where you are and what is outstanding. We will come back with a scope and a clear starting point.
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