Tax Practitioner; BBS

We're looking for a Tax Practitioner to handle the full tax compliance cycle for a simulated portfolio of small, owner-managed companies, their directors and shareholders, sole proprietors, and family trusts, from registrations and provisional tax through to annual returns, SARS correspondence, and disputes. Your work becomes the training data and workflow designs that a cutting-edge AI tax system learns from. This is a long-term, permanent role working directly with the founder and an AI partner at the frontier of AI development in tax.

This is not a traditional tax role. Yes, you will be running each simulated client's full tax year to a professional standard. But you will also be documenting the steps, decisions, and judgments behind your work, not just the outputs, and helping design and test the AI workflows that follow your methodology. If you have hands-on SARS eFiling experience across at least two full filing seasons, understand the South African tax compliance cycle end to end, and have a genuine interest in breaking tax work into clear, teachable steps for AI to follow, this role is a strong fit.

• You will be paid in USD (bi-monthly: every 15th and 30th)
• Paid Time Off in accordance with company policy
• Observance of Holidays per company guidelines
• 100% remote setup so you can work wherever you're most productive
• Own a simulated client portfolio and work alongside an AI partner from day one
• Long-term, permanent role at the cutting edge of AI development in tax where your judgment directly shapes the AI that tax practitioners will use

• Prepare individual tax returns (ITR
  12) including capital gains, collecting IRP5s, IT3 certificates, medical aid and retirement annuity certificates, travel logbooks, and rental schedules, and check auto-assessments before accepting them
• Complete company tax returns (ITR
  14) from the signed AFS and the AFS Accountant's tax computation including small business corporation and assessed loss positions
• Estimate taxable income for company provisional tax (IRP6) for the first and second periods and plan top-up payments to avoid underestimation penalties
• Estimate taxable income for individual provisional tax (IRP6) for owners and sole proprietors and advise on third top-up payments
• Prepare dividends tax returns (DTR
  01) and payments when clients declare dividends and confirm exemption declarations
• Identify donations above the annual exemption and prepare IT144 returns and payments
• Prepare IT3(t) submissions and ITR
  12T trust returns and track distributions and vesting to beneficiaries

• Reconcile EMP
  201 payments to payroll for interim and annual periods and issue IRP5 and IT3(a) certificates (EMP
  501)
• Handle one-off client requests including tax numbers, notices of registration, copies of assessments, statements, and confirmation letters
• Maintain eFiling profiles, practitioner mandates, banking details, and registered particulars; reconcile statements of account; follow up refunds; and obtain Tax Compliance Status PINs
• Draft objections and appeals, requests for suspension of payment and penalty remission requests, and track each to outcome
• Respond to SARS verifications and audits with complete supporting documents, working with the AFS Accountant on relevant records, and submit requests for correction
• Register clients for income tax, provisional tax, PAYE, SDL, UIF, and VAT including mandatory and voluntary VAT registration
• Update registered representatives and public officers with SARS when directors change
• Register clients as importers or exporters with SARS Customs and keep customs details current
• Request instalment payment arrangements for tax debts and track client compliance
• Deregister dormant clients…