SARS Audit and Verification Response Agent
The SARS Audit and Verification Response Agent reads SARS verification and audit letters, breaks each one into individual requests and maps them to the right ledger entries, invoices, contracts and working papers. It drafts the response letter and supporting schedules within the deadline, and helps build objections under the dispute resolution rules of the Tax Administration Act.
Ideal forTax managers
The difference
From 15-25 hours per SARS request to 4-6 hours
Your tax team spends its time on judgement and SARS engagement rather than searching for documents and assembling schedules.
Done by hand
15-25 hours per SARS request
With the Vanine agent
4-6 hours
Time returned to your team
75%
Indicative figures. We measure your own baseline in the first fortnight so the numbers you see are yours.
Deadlines you do not miss
SARS requests under the Tax Administration Act come with response periods that are easy to lose in a busy finance office. The agent logs every due date and tracks each item to completion.
Complete answers, first time
Incomplete responses lead to follow-up requests and prolonged audits. Mapping each request to its evidence means SARS receives what it asked for in a clear, indexed pack.
A stronger position if you dispute
When you disagree with SARS findings, a well-organised record and structured grounds strengthen your objection and help you manage exposure to understatement penalties.
Capabilities
Answer every SARS request completely, clearly and well before the deadline.
Built for tax managers, financial controllers, CFOs and tax practices that respond to SARS verifications, audits and letters of audit findings for South African taxpayers.
Letter reading and request breakdown
Reads verification letters, section 46 requests for relevant material, audit letters and letters of audit findings, splitting each into itemised requests with due dates.
Evidence mapping
Finds the supporting documents for each request in your ledger, AP and AR records, contracts and SharePoint files, and flags what is missing.
VAT, PAYE and income tax coverage
Handles the common SARS focus areas, including VAT refund verifications, PAYE queries and income tax audits, with schedules that tie back to returns filed.
Response drafting
Drafts a clear, professional response letter and indexed supporting schedules that address each SARS request in the order it was raised.
Objection support
Helps structure objections to assessments under the dispute resolution rules, setting out the facts, grounds and supporting evidence for your tax practitioner to finalise.
Deadline and correspondence tracker
Keeps a register of every SARS case, request, response date and follow-up, so nothing is lost across tax types or entities.
How it works
From your systems to a result you sign off
Your registered tax practitioner reviews and finalises every response and objection, and submits it to SARS on eFiling.
Connect the places your tax records already live.
SARS letters from eFiling or email, your general ledger and subledgers from the ERP, returns filed, and contracts and invoices in SharePoint. Already use something else? We connect that too.
- OpenAI Frontier
- Your own AI platform or models
- Microsoft 365 (Teams, SharePoint, Outlook, Excel)
- Copilot Studio
- SAP, Sage, Syspro, Dynamics 365, Xero
- CaseWare working papers
- SARS eFiling-ready response packs
Starts when a SARS letter arrives, or on request in Teams or OpenAI Frontier, using the models your organisation approves.
A draft response letter, indexed evidence pack and supporting schedules in Word and Excel, with a case tracker in SharePoint.
Step by step
- 01
A SARS verification, audit or findings letter arrives and the agent logs it with its due date.
- 02
It breaks the letter into individual requests and maps each one to supporting evidence.
- 03
It flags missing documents and requests them from the right people in your team.
- 04
It drafts the response letter, schedules and evidence index, or the objection grounds.
- 05
Your registered tax practitioner reviews, finalises and submits on eFiling.
- 06
The submitted pack and correspondence are filed for any follow-up or appeal.
Deployment
Runs inside the tools your team already uses
The same agent and the same cited output, delivered three ways: through the AI assistant you have rolled out, on a model you host yourself, or inside your own software.
In the frontier assistant you already pay for
We publish the agent as an MCP server. Add it as a connector and your team calls it from the chat they use every day, with no new tool to learn.
"What exactly is SARS asking for?"
- taxpayer
- Manufacturing company
- request
- VAT verification
On a model you host yourself
Run the agent on open-weight models in your data centre or private cloud. Your tax records never leave your network, which keeps POPIA and data residency straightforward.
- Llama
- Mistral
- Ollama
- or any OpenAI-compatible endpoint
Inside your own software
Trigger a run from your own workflows, and push the finished output into your ERP, GRC or reporting systems. We build the integration with your team.
- REST API
- Webhooks
- Batch jobs
- Embeddable review panel
Governed the same way, every route
Whichever way your team reaches the agent, identity, permissions and audit stay with your existing controls.
- Single sign-on through Entra ID, Okta or Google Workspace
- Reads only the documents each user is already allowed to open
- Every tool call written to an audit log you can export
How we deliver it
One agent, three ways to hold it
Start where your team already works, then take it as far into your systems as the value justifies.
DATA SECURITY & PRIVACY
Your tax records stay yours.
The agent runs inside your tenancy, reads only what each task needs, and never trains on your tax records. Every step is logged so your auditors can see exactly what it touched.
Built for regulated work.
+YOUR TAX RECORDS NEVER LEAVE YOUR ENVIRONMENT
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