Transfer Pricing Agent
The Transfer Pricing Agent extracts intercompany transaction data from your ERP and agreements, tests pricing against comparable benchmarks and drafts your master file, local file and country-by-country report. Everything is aligned with section 31 of the Income Tax Act, SARS guidance and the OECD Transfer Pricing Guidelines, freeing your tax team for planning.
Ideal forGroup tax teams
The difference
From 8-12 weeks to 3-5 days
Your group tax team spends the documentation season on pricing policy and planning decisions rather than assembling files.
Done by hand
8-12 weeks
With the Vanine agent
3-5 days
Time returned to your team
90%
Indicative figures. We measure your own baseline in the first fortnight so the numbers you see are yours.
SARS is looking closely
SARS is actively auditing section 31 transfer pricing. The agent helps you find pricing outside the arm's length range, and the secondary adjustment risk that comes with it, before SARS does.
An annual burden, lifted
Master and local file preparation above the R100 million threshold is document-heavy and comes round every year. The agent drafts it from your own data so your team reviews rather than writes.
Evidence on demand
Every pricing conclusion links to source documents and comparables, giving you the audit-ready support SARS requests during a transfer pricing audit.
Capabilities
Master file, local file and CbC drafts in days, not months.
Built for group tax teams at South African multinationals and inbound groups, and transfer pricing advisers at audit and tax firms.
Automated transaction extraction
Extracts intercompany data from ERPs, invoices and service agreements, identifying the cross-border affected transactions that need documentation under section 31.
Arm's length pricing validation
Compares intercompany pricing and connected-party funding against comparables and benchmarks, flagging arrangements outside the range that could attract SARS scrutiny or secondary adjustments treated as deemed dividends.
Functional analysis automation
Analyses agreements and organisational data to document the functions, assets and risks of each entity, following SARS Interpretation Note 127 and the OECD Guidelines.
Country-by-country reporting
Prepares CbC data for groups with consolidated revenue of R10 billion or more, consolidating revenue, profit, tax and employees by jurisdiction for review and submission via eFiling.
Master File and Local File drafting
Drafts master files and local files for groups whose potentially affected transactions exceed R100 million, in line with BEPS Action 13 and SARS documentation requirements.
Audit-ready documentation
Keeps an audit trail linking every pricing conclusion to its source documents and comparables, ready for SARS transfer pricing audits.
How it works
From your systems to a result you sign off
Your tax lead or adviser reviews and signs off every document, and the CbC report lands ready for review and submission on eFiling.
Connect the places your intercompany records already live.
Intercompany ledgers from your ERP, intercompany agreements from SharePoint and comparables from your licensed benchmarking database. Already use something else? We connect that too.
- OpenAI Frontier
- Your own AI platform or models
- Microsoft 365 (SharePoint, Teams, Word, Excel)
- SAP, Oracle, Dynamics 365, Sage, Syspro intercompany ledgers
- Intercompany agreements and service contracts
- Licensed benchmarking databases
- SARS eFiling-ready CbC report data
Used by your group tax team in OpenAI Frontier or Teams, with sensitive steps routed to the models your organisation approves.
Draft master file, local file and functional analysis in Word, with CbC data and benchmarking schedules in Excel, saved to SharePoint.
Step by step
- 01
The documentation cycle opens for the financial year.
- 02
The agent extracts intercompany transactions and agreements across the group.
- 03
It tests pricing and funding against benchmarks and flags outliers.
- 04
It drafts the functional analysis, master file, local file and CbC data.
- 05
Your tax team reviews, refines and approves the documentation.
- 06
An authorised person submits the CbC report on eFiling and the files are retained for SARS.
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.
"List every FY2026 intercompany flow over R1 million"
- year
- FY2026
- group
- Holdings Group
On a model you host yourself
Run the agent on open-weight models in your data centre or private cloud. Your intercompany 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 intercompany records stay yours.
The agent runs inside your tenancy, reads only what each task needs, and never trains on your intercompany records. Every step is logged so your auditors can see exactly what it touched.
Built for regulated work.
+YOUR INTERCOMPANY RECORDS NEVER LEAVE YOUR ENVIRONMENT
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