Resources for South African business owners
Everything here is written by the practice, for owners who would rather understand the rules than be managed by them.
South Coast Advisory publishes free guidance for South African business owners covering SARS deadlines and penalties, VAT and provisional tax, payroll submissions, CIPC compliance and moving accounting software to Xero.
Free guides and checklists
Six PDF guides written by this practice: SARS deadlines, moving to Xero, month-end close, payroll compliance, VAT registration and record keeping.
AI for business owners
Where AI genuinely helps a small business, what you must never paste into a chatbot, prompts that work, and what it can and cannot do with your books.
SARS and CIPC deadline calendar
The returns that repeat every year — EMP201, VAT201, EMP501, provisional tax, CIPC annual returns — and what happens when one is missed.
Accounting, tax and SARS questions, answered
Provisional tax, VAT registration, EMP201 penalties, CIPC annual returns and what an accountant actually costs.
Accounting and SARS glossary
Every term you will meet in your own books, defined for South African rules and linked to the service it belongs to.
Moving to Xero
What migration involves, how long it takes, and when you should not bother.
How we quote
What drives an accounting fee up or down, so you can judge before you phone.
A question this library does not answer?
Send it: a tax treatment, a SARS letter, a Xero setting. We will answer it, and if other owners are asking the same, publish the answer here.