Tax Practitioner

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🇿🇦 South Africa – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟢 Junior

💰 Tax

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Hire Overseas

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1 - 10 employees

Founded 2023

💼 Consulting

📣 Marketing

📦 Logistics

Consulting • Marketing • Logistics

Hire Overseas is a recruitment agency that specializes in connecting businesses with top-tier overseas talent. By focusing on a range of roles from technical and design fields to marketing and administrative support, Hire Overseas aims to streamline operations and boost productivity for its clients while offering significant cost savings. The company prioritizes quality by accepting less than 1% of global hires, ensuring that only exceptional candidates are placed in various remote positions.

📋 Description

• Handle the full tax compliance cycle for a simulated portfolio of small owner-managed companies, directors and shareholders, sole proprietors, and family trusts • Prepare individual ITR12 tax returns, including capital gains, supporting certificates, travel logbooks, rental schedules, and auto-assessment checks • Complete company ITR14 returns from signed AFS and tax computations • Estimate company and individual provisional tax and plan top-up payments • Prepare dividends tax returns and payments • Identify taxable donations and prepare IT144 returns and payments • Prepare IT3(t) submissions and ITR12T trust returns and track distributions and vesting • Reconcile EMP201 payments to payroll and issue IRP5 and IT3(a) certificates through EMP501 • Handle tax-number, registration, assessment, statement, and confirmation-letter requests • Maintain eFiling profiles, mandates, banking details, registered particulars, account reconciliations, refunds, and Tax Compliance Status PINs • Draft objections, appeals, suspension-of-payment requests, and penalty-remission requests and track outcomes • Respond to SARS verifications and audits, submit supporting documents, and request corrections • Register and deregister clients for income tax, provisional tax, PAYE, SDL, UIF, VAT, and SARS Customs • Update SARS registered representatives and public officers • Request instalment payment arrangements and track compliance • Maintain client deadline calendars and manage filing-season workload • Check third-party data, prior assessments, and payments before submission • Obtain missing documents from simulated clients and bookkeepers • Flag VAT registration risks and raise tax planning points • Prepare professional-standard returns as AI training data • Document tax steps, decisions, and judgments for AI learning • Design, refine, and test AI tax workflows • Use AI models to prepare returns, draft SARS correspondence, and check work

🎯 Requirements

• BCom in Accounting or Taxation, National Diploma in Accounting, or equivalent • 1 to 3 years in a tax practice or an accounting practice with tax work, including at least two full filing seasons and provisional tax cycles • Hands-on SARS eFiling experience including registrations, ITR12, IRP6, ITR14, and EMP501 submissions, and responding to verification letters • Experience drafting objections or SARS audit responses for review by a senior • Working knowledge of the Income Tax Act and the Tax Administration Act including capital gains, provisional tax, and the dispute rules • Able to manage your own portfolio of returns through filing season with limited supervision • Strong Excel skills including lookups, reconciliations, and tax workings • Detail-oriented and deadline-driven with a clear understanding that SARS dates and penalties do not move • Clear, polite written English for client requests, SARS letters, and objections • Genuine interest in AI and in breaking tax work into clear, teachable steps • Comfortable working with AI models and able to check and challenge what they produce • Only candidates who submit a Loom video will be moved to the next step • Nice-to-have qualifications and experience include independent objections and appeals, SARS audits, trusts and IT3(t), donations and dividends tax, SARS Customs, SAIT designation, payroll systems, practice tax software, and Xero, Sage, or Pastel systems

🏖️ Benefits

• 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 • Long-term, permanent role • Own a simulated client portfolio and work alongside an AI partner • Direct impact on AI development in tax