Never miss a SARS or CIPC deadline
Compliance is where a practice’s reputation is won or lost — and the hard part is that deadlines differ per client. This is how to run a portfolio of entities so nothing slips, without maintaining a fragile spreadsheet.
Why a uniform calendar fails
VAT categories differ, financial year-ends differ, payroll days differ. A single shared calendar assumes everyone is the same, so it is wrong for half the book the moment you build it. The deadlines have to be derived from each entity’s own cadence.
Set the cadence once, track it thereafter
The reliable pattern is to capture each entity’s cadence once — VAT category, year-end, payroll day — and let the obligations derive from it. Atlas OS does exactly this across SARS and CIPC, with a live status board and a full audit trail.
- Obligations derived per entity from its real cadence
- A portfolio status board: overdue, due soon, filed
- SARS correspondence surfaced into the inbox and linked to the entity
- An audit trail on every change, for your own quality control
The honest limit
Atlas tracks every deadline and surfaces SARS correspondence, but you still submit through SARS eFiling — direct submission is on the roadmap. The value is that nothing reaches the deadline unseen.
The short version.
- Per-client deadlines make a uniform calendar unreliable.
- Derive obligations from each entity’s cadence, set once.
- Atlas tracks SARS and CIPC with a status board and audit trail; you still file via eFiling.
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Put every deadline on one board.
See how the Compliance Engine derives and tracks obligations per entity.