SARS has AI.
Now you do too.
SilkeAI is an AI research and drafting platform built exclusively on South African tax law — every answer backed by verified citations to the Acts, SARS Interpretation Notes, rulings and case law. In development now. Join the founding practitioner programme.
A trading-stock write-down under s 22(1)(a) requires the value to be the cost less any just and reasonable amount for the diminution — SARS's approach is set out in IN 65.
You know these situations.
The Friday-afternoon SARS letter.
A verification request or audit findings letter lands with a deadline attached. Now your weekend is research.
Auto-assessments that are wrong.
Around 59% of objections against SARS assessments succeed in full or in part.* SARS's systems are fast — disputing them shouldn't be slow.
Research time nobody pays for.
Hours in the Acts, Interpretation Notes and case reports that you can't put on the invoice.
*SARS dispute-resolution reporting, 2024/25.
Cited answers. Drafted responses. Objections that hold.
Ask, with authority.
Ask a tax question in plain language. Get an answer grounded in the Income Tax Act, VAT Act, Tax Administration Act, Interpretation Notes, rulings and case law — with pinpoint citations you can click and read in the source.
Turn SARS letters into responses.
Upload a verification request, audit findings letter or additional assessment. SilkeAI extracts the issues and drafts a structured, cited response.
Draft objections that hold.
Grounds for objection and appeal drafted against the actual TAA dispute rules and deadlines — built to survive validity screening.
Opinions with verified references.
Structured tax opinions — facts, issues, law, application, conclusion — with every quoted authority verified against the source before you ever see it.
Courts have zero tolerance for invented citations. So do we.
South African courts have already seen AI-fabricated authorities — and SilkeAI is engineered so that can't happen silently: a closed corpus of SA sources only, deterministic citation verification, a clear distinction between verified quotes and AI summaries, and refusal instead of guessing.
How verification works →Built for the people who do the work.
Tax Professionals
→Your research associate for South African tax — cited answers, drafted opinions, dispute documents.
Tax Practitioners
→The SARS letter flood, handled — from correspondence to objection, faster and safer.
Tax Attorneys
→Authorities you can verify, every time — Tax Court to Constitutional Court.
Chartered Accountants
→Quick technical answers with sources for the file — and know when to escalate.
Accountants & Bookkeepers
→Plain-language cited answers on VAT, PAYE and provisional tax — safer than Googling it.
Business owners
→Know where you stand with SARS — before the conversation with your advisor.
Built by people who live tax.
SilkeAI is being built by a team from the South African tax education and technology world, with deep roots in practitioner training and CPD. Founders to be announced with the pilot cohort.
SilkeAI is in development. Founding practitioners get in first.
Shape the roadmap, pilot the platform on real (anonymised) matters, and lock in founding-member benefits at launch.