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The VAT you are overpaying is recoverable.
Most retirement funds, asset managers, and corporates treat VAT as a fixed cost. It rarely is. VAT sitting in your management, administration, and operational fees is quietly written off every year, because standard apportionment is conservative and nobody is specifically looking for it. It is recoverable. It is material. And SARS only lets you go back five years.
What does TaiAscend do?
We are a specialist overlay, not a replacement for your tax team or your advisors. Standard apportionment, complex structures, and years of legacy assumptions quietly leave recoverable VAT unclaimed. We find it, quantify it, and build the evidence to recover it.
Evidence-led — Every recovery is technically substantiated, fully documented, and built to withstand SARS scrutiny.
Low disruption — Analytics run off-site from secure data extracts. We only need your team where it matters.
Aligned to your outcome — Fees apply only to realised, verified recoveries. If no value is unlocked, no fees are incurred.
You already have an auditor. That is not what we do.
Your auditor signs off the past. We go back into it and recover the VAT that routine compliance was never looking for.
Existing Auditors Focus on
Compliance
Submissions
Annual audits
TaiAscend Focuses on
VAT optimisation
Revenue Authority Interpretation and industry rulings
Historical recoveries
Methodology and apportionment reviews
Transaction-level reviews
Industry benchmarking
Special claims
Contingency-based projects, on a no win, no fee basis
Your auditor confirms the numbers are right. We find the money inside them.
How it works.
You decide at each gate, based on evidence.
01
Rapid diagnostic (2 to 4 weeks)
We size the opportunity and hand you a quantified map and a risk-rated plan.
02
Recovery & substantiation (4 to 12 weeks)
We build Revenue Authority-ready claim packs and support submission and verification.
03
Sustainment (optional, ongoing)
We fix the root cause so the leakage does not return.
Proof you can take to your board.
Retirement Funds & Asset Managers — recoveries in excess of R100 million across engagements.
Mining & Corporates — where VAT value hides in procurement, CapEx, and exports.
Collective Investment Schemes — recovery without fund-level VAT registration.
Recover What’s Yours – Let’s Maximise Your VAT Savings
SARS limits some claims to five years. Every month that passes, some of your recoverable VAT expires permanently. A rapid diagnostic tells you exactly how much is still recoverable, and how much time is left.
