The 🇿🇦 SARS section is where 360books earns its keep. It's a preparation aid — it builds your returns from your real books so filing on eFiling is a review, not a reconstruction. (It doesn't file to SARS for you.)
Tax profile
Start on the Profile tab: your income-tax reference, VAT number and category (monthly/bi-monthly), PAYE number, whether you're a provisional taxpayer, and your income-tax regime (standard company 27%, Small Business Corporation, or turnover tax).
VAT201
The VAT201 tab builds your return for a period: output VAT (on sales) less input VAT (on purchases), with a full box-by-box breakdown — standard-rated, zero-rated and exempt supplies, capital vs other input VAT, and bad-debt adjustments. Mark a return filed (with its reference) and paid as you go. A VAT reconciliation tab ties your VAT control accounts to what you've declared.
Income tax & the worksheet
The Income tax tab estimates your tax for the year: it starts from your accounting profit and applies a worksheet — add-backs (disallowed expenses), capital allowances, and any assessed loss brought forward — to reach taxable income, then taxes it at your regime's rates.
- Capital allowances (wear-and-tear) flow in automatically from your Fixed assets register.
- The R1m / 80% assessed-loss cap is applied for companies, showing how much loss is set off vs carried forward.
Provisional tax (IRP6)
If you're a provisional taxpayer, 360books works out your two IRP6 payments (due end of the sixth month and at year-end), using the higher of your estimate or your basic amount as a safe minimum, and flags under-estimation risk.
Compliance calendar
The Compliance calendar lists every upcoming obligation — VAT201, EMP201, provisional tax, EMP501 and the annual return — with due dates and filed/overdue status. 360books also emails the company owner reminders before deadlines.
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