Tax & Compliance Clerk

Prepares every return on the calendar, files it on eFiling once a human has signed it off, and keeps the proof.

VAT201, EMP201, provisional tax and CIPC 27 systems From R6 500 / month Up to 25 client companies included

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What the Tax & Compliance Clerk actually does

The whole job, in the order it happens — not a feature list.

1

Watches the calendar

Holds every client's dates — VAT201 by the last business day on eFiling, EMP201 by the 7th, provisional tax, the EMP501 reconciliation, and the CIPC annual return on the anniversary of incorporation.

2

Pulls the numbers

Extracts the VAT and payroll figures from the ledger and the payroll package, and reconciles the control accounts before it prepares anything at all.

3

Checks before it prepares

Flags input VAT with no valid tax invoice behind it, VAT numbers that fail validation, and any return that moves more than your tolerance against the prior period.

4

Prepares the return

Completes the return on eFiling — and stops. The submit button waits for a person.

5

Files it once you sign off

You review the prepared return against the working paper and sign off. It submits, then captures the acknowledgement, the reference number and the assessment.

6

Keeps the proof

Every submission, acknowledgement and payment reference filed against the client alongside the working paper that produced it — so a query two years from now takes a minute, not an afternoon.

What it brings to you

Nothing is ever submitted to SARS or CIPC without a named human signing it off. That is a permanent design decision, not a limitation of the first version — you carry the liability for what is filed, so you press the button.

  • Every return, before submission — without exception
  • A movement outside your period-on-period tolerance
  • Input VAT with no valid tax invoice behind it
  • A control account that does not reconcile
  • A SARS assessment that disagrees with the return filed
  • A client whose supporting records are not complete

What it puts on your dashboard

A digital worker you cannot measure is one you cannot trust. Every run is logged, and the numbers below are reported without being asked for.

  • Returns prepared, filed and outstanding, against every deadline
  • Days to deadline for every client, on one screen
  • Movement against the prior period, per return
  • Queries and assessments raised, and where each one stands
  • Clients whose records are not yet complete enough to file
  • A proof-of-submission pack, per client, per period

The systems it works in

27 pre-built connections, ready on day one. Where a system publishes an API, the digital worker uses it directly from the cloud.

Revenue authorities and registries

Ledgers

Payroll

Evidence and sign-off

Chasing the client

And the systems with no API at all

SARS eFiling and CIPC screens where no API covers the step — the bot works the portal on your machine, signed in under your own practitioner profile.

This is the part a cloud-only tool cannot do. The Automize bot runs on your own machine, so anything a person can open, it can work in — the desktop accounting package, the bank portal, the supplier site with no integration.

Where it runs, and what never leaves

On your machine

The bot is installed where the work happens, so it can reach the systems that never got an API.

Credentials stay put

Passwords live in your operating system's own keychain and never sync to us. We hold the steps, not the secrets.

POPIA and GDPR by design

Client financial data is processed locally. Servers are in AWS Ireland and hold process definitions and execution logs.

Every step audited

Step-by-step logs, screenshots and timestamps for every run — and a record of who approved what.

Questions about the Tax & Compliance Clerk

No, and it never will. It prepares the return and stops. A named human reviews it against the working paper and signs off, and only then does it submit. Filing is where the liability sits, so that is where the person stays.
You are. The digital worker prepares and files under your practitioner profile once you have signed off. It holds no registration of its own and it does not give tax advice.
The bot re-plans the affected step and reports the change. Because it drives eFiling the way a person does, a screen moving is a step to re-learn rather than an integration to rebuild.
Yes. The same role covers HMRC Making Tax Digital in the United Kingdom — where quarterly submissions replaced the annual return for anyone over £50 000 in April 2026, and the £30 000 band follows in April 2027 — and VAT and corporate tax filing in the UAE.

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The work that turns the 7th and the 25th of every month into a crisis, for every client at once.