We run the SARS admin your seniors are doing by hand.
For registered tax practitioners, SAIT member practices, and the tax desks of mixed firms under 50 staff, where verification letters, auto-assessment queries, and the document chase fall to the same two people every season.
Next 90 days
1 December 2026 to 28 February 2027
| Due | Return | What it covers |
|---|---|---|
| 7 Dec 2026 | EMP201 | November payroll: PAYE, UIF and SDL, return and payment by the 7th. |
| 31 Dec 2026 | VAT201 | October to November period, Category A, filed on eFiling by the last business day of the month. |
| 7 Jan 2027 | EMP201 | December payroll, return and payment. |
| 5 Feb 2027 | EMP201 | January payroll, brought forward because the 7th is a Sunday. |
| 26 Feb 2027 | VAT201 | December to January period, last business day of February. |
| 26 Feb 2027 | IRP6 second | Second provisional payment for the year to 28 February 2027, twelve months in; the 28th is a Sunday. |
| 26 Feb 2027 | ITR14 | Return for the year ended 28 February 2026, due twelve months after year end, so it moves back to the Friday as well. |
The first IRP6 payment for this year fell due on 31 August 2026, six months into the year, and is already in. The EMP501 annual reconciliation for the year opens on 1 April 2027 and closes on 31 May 2027.
C-Suite takes the SARS-admin side of the practice off your team. It chases the clients slow to send supporting documents, tracks the clock on every open matter across the tax book, and assembles verification bundles before they reach your reviewer. In effect it is AI tax software for South African practices, run as managed AI: C-Suite operates the engines and your people keep every regulated decision. The engines work alongside SARS eFiling, GreatSoft, CaseWare, Xero, Sage, and Pastel, and the service is scoped to practices under 50 staff.
Tax practices and accounting firms are the focus. See the homepage for how C-Suite works end to end, or C-Suite for accounting firms if your firm also runs a full accounting book.
The moments most South African tax practice principals recognise.
Auto-assessment season opens and the query wave arrives the same week: clients wanting to know whether to accept the assessment, why the refund shrank, and whether SARS used the right certificates, and every answer has to come from someone senior enough to be sure.
A SARS verification letter arrives in deadline week, the supporting documents carry a 21-business-day clock, and the person who has to gather them is the same person trying to get the filing queue out the door.
The EMP501 reconciliation crunch arrives twice a year, and for those weeks the practice runs on IRP5 certificates, payroll exports, and chase emails while the rest of the tax book carries on as if nothing else were happening.
RAV01 changes, registered representative updates, and the registered-detail admin that SARS now polices sit with whoever can face eFiling that day, and a stale detail surfaces months later as a rejected submission at the worst possible time.
You have already asked yourself, three times this year, whether the answer is hiring another senior.
SARS is automating its side of the relationship while the practitioner side still runs by hand.
Auto-assessments, AI-assisted verification selection, and a wider compliance scope mean more letters, more supporting-document requests, and more review time per client, with the same senior hours to absorb it. The team behind C-Suite has spent eight years running operations built on high-volume document intake, deadline-driven escalation, and multi-stakeholder approval chains, and a tax practice in season runs the same shape: principals who should not be doing the admin but keep doing it at 9pm, and practitioners whose time is the scarce resource. The case studies, with named practices and real numbers, are being written with our first partners now, and the systems already run.
The tax automation C-Suite runs for your practice.
The supporting documents a verification asks for, the IRP5s and certificates filing season runs on, and the inputs a provisional estimate needs get chased on a schedule, in your practice voice, with reminders that step up as the deadline gets closer.
What comes back, whether it arrives over email, WhatsApp, or a portal, gets read, named, and filed against the right taxpayer and the right period, so a verification bundle is assembled in order instead of reconstructed from a mailbox the night before it is due.
The clock on every open verification, the provisional tax dates, the EMP501 windows, and the registered-detail admin sit on one tracked view of the tax book, so what is outstanding and what is about to go late is visible at a glance instead of living in a senior’s head.
This is the work C-Suite Commercial takes on for a tax practice: the SARS and tax operations that take practitioner time, from drafting returns and query responses to handling follow-ups, run alongside the company-tax compliance calendar. A practice comparing tax automation software in South Africa is usually pricing exactly this list, and the difference here is that C-Suite runs the software for you, so there is no licence to administer and nothing for a senior to operate.
Works alongside the stack your practice already runs.
C-Suite works from what your practice exports to a watched folder, so there is no connector into GreatSoft, CaseWare, or the Xero, Sage, and Pastel ledgers to install and no login to hand over, and the mailbox and drive access it does use is granted by your practice and can be withdrawn by your practice at any time.
POPIA-aligned by default.
Client data stays in infrastructure hosted in South Africa, processing is logged per matter, and deletion on request happens inside seven days. Your data is never used to train a model, and you see the data processing agreement up front.
What changes across your first filing season with C-Suite.
Each item is a real principal moment from South African tax practice. The first six are the operational shift across one season. The seventh is the rule the other six run under.
Item 1: The supporting documents are chased from the client while the clock is still long, in your practice voice, so the bundle is in before the deadline instead of a senior gathering it the night before it is due.
Item 2: The auto-assessment query wave is triaged before it reaches your seniors: each client question is matched to its assessment and the file your practitioner opens already shows what SARS used and what changed since last year.
Item 3: Every open matter carries its own clock, so what is outstanding across the tax book sits in one place your team can read at a glance rather than in the memory of whoever handled it last.
Item 4: The reconciliation season starts with the IRP5 certificates and payroll exports already chased, named, and filed per employer, so the crunch weeks are spent reconciling rather than asking clients for the same export three times.
Item 5: Your registered practitioner picks up a matter that is prepped, bundled, and ready for judgement, so the scarce senior hours go into the decisions only a practitioner can make rather than into chasing and sorting.
Item 6: Every chase, every filed document, and every captured deadline is logged on a record your practice can inspect, so when a client disputes whether they were asked, you can show a timestamp.
Item 7: The single outcome you are aiming at is agreed in writing before any work starts, and your registered practitioner clears every message and every bundle before it leaves the practice, so the record shows who decided what.
The guides behind this page go deeper: what a SARS verification letter sets in motion once the 21-business-day clock starts, where the boundary sits between AI and SARS eFiling, and what a rushed estimate costs under the provisional tax underestimation penalty.
The outcome is agreed in writing before any work starts.
Before the operation runs a single matter, we agree the one outcome we are aiming at and put it in writing in the one-page brief you sign during onboarding. You see the before and after in your own numbers, on your own tax book.
A person on your team signs off every action. Nothing is filed with SARS, no client message goes out on its own, and your client data is never used to train a model. We onboard a small number of South African practices at a time, because running each season properly is what the promise rests on.
Five questions practice principals ask before they sign.
How does this work alongside our registered tax practitioner?
C-Suite sits underneath your practitioner. It runs the legwork of the season, chasing the clients slow to send supporting documents and keeping the clock on every open matter visible, then hands your practitioner a matter that is already prepped, so the scarce senior hours go into the tax position and the SARS interaction, under their own practitioner number, rather than into chasing and sorting.
What does it do with a SARS verification letter?
Once a person on your team logs the case reference and the response deadline from the letter, C-Suite takes over the chase: it requests the supporting documents the letter asks for from the client, sorts what comes back against the matter, and assembles the bundle in order for your reviewer. It does not read or respond to SARS correspondence itself and it does not upload anything, so the upload and the response are your practitioner’s, and the whole trail, from the date the letter was logged to the date the bundle was ready against the 21-business-day clock, sits on a record your practice can inspect.
Does it work with SARS eFiling and our tax software?
Yes. C-Suite works alongside SARS eFiling and the software your practice already runs, including GreatSoft, CaseWare, and the Xero, Sage, or Pastel ledgers your compliance work draws on, plus the mailbox and WhatsApp threads the chase actually happens in, and it does that from what your practice exports to a watched folder, so your logins stay where they are and your practitioner submits on eFiling exactly as today.
Is client data safe, given POPIA and taxpayer confidentiality?
Yes. Your practice remains the responsible party under POPIA and C-Suite works as an operator under a written operator agreement that records where every processing step runs, which also answers the taxpayer confidentiality question, because that agreement, with the hosting in South Africa, the per-matter log, and the seven-day deletion written into it, is the document you show a client who asks.
Is this AI tax software or a service?
Both, in effect: C-Suite is AI tax software for South African tax practices delivered as a managed operation, where the engines chase the documents and track the deadlines and the practice buys the outcome rather than a licence, so there is no system for a senior to run and no dashboard that goes stale after onboarding.
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Tell us which part of the season is taking the most senior time in your practice.
Fifteen minutes on Google Meet that ends with a one-page brief regardless of whether you sign.