VAT reporting is evolving
SARS is moving toward transaction-level visibility and real-time data. The reporting model of the last decade is ending.
About Arc Intelligence
Intelligence in motion.
Arc Intelligence is an AI Operations Firm. We deploy AI operators that audit, structure, and validate your clients’ VAT records — then automate transmission directly to SARS. We do not just flag problems. We fix them, continuously, inside the accounting practices that serve South Africa’s VAT vendor base.
Our Mission
Your time belongs with clients. Not with administration.
Accounting firms should spend their time advising clients — not managing compliance administration. Our mission is to enable firms to scale compliance capabilities without scaling administrative workload.
Every hour your senior people spend preparing, checking and submitting VAT records is an hour of advisory value your clients never receive. Arc exists to return those hours to the practice.
Why Arc Exists
Compliance is evolving faster than headcount can.
Complexity is compounding
Every client adds formats, exceptions and edge cases. Manual review cannot keep pace with rising data standards.
Operational pressure is rising
Deadlines compress, expectations grow, and skilled staff spend their best hours on repetitive execution.
Execution must scale
Firms need compliance capacity that grows with the client base — without growing the payroll alongside it.
Core Principles
How we operate.
Precision
Every record, every field, every figure — correct before it moves. Accuracy is the entry requirement, not the goal.
Reliability
Operators execute the same way on the first submission and the ten-thousandth. Consistency is engineered, not hoped for.
Execution
We are measured by completed operations, not recommendations. Arc does the work — it does not describe it.
Compliance
SARS requirements define our standard. Readiness is maintained continuously, not assembled at deadline.
Operational leverage
One practice, multiplied. We exist to let firms deliver more compliance output per person than was previously possible.
Intelligence in motion
Our name is our standard: intelligence that acts. Not dashboards, not reports — operations in motion.
See what your practice looks like with execution handled.
Book a VAT Readiness Assessment and discover how your practice can eliminate manual VAT compliance execution.
A focused, partner-level review of your practice’s VAT readiness. No obligation.