Season 2 Episode 4

Viresh Harduth on Sage’s new VAT eFiling solution for accountants

02 November 2021 · 07:18 min

Viresh Harduth is the Vice President of Small Business at Sage Africa and Middle East, and has been with the company for 8 years. He is in charge of developing the channel for Sage’s start-up and small business portfolio, including Sage Business Cloud Accounting and Sage Pastel Payroll.He was… previously the Director of Optimisation and Operations at Sage International, and before joining Sage, Harduth worked at FNB in both a pricing analyst and financial analyst capacity.In this episode of Owning it with Sage, Harduth unpacks Sage’s recently-announced VAT eFiling for Sage Business Cloud Accountants Edition. He discusses how this solution automates one of the biggest pain points that accountants face – VAT submissions – and explains why this is beneficial. Harduth also highlights that this VAT eFiling solution is integrated into Sage Business Cloud, and explains how this aligns with Sage’s commitment to reducing the manual operations and admin burdens of its customers and accountants. He closes by discussing the trends he is seeing in the small business sector – particularly in the context of the level 1 lockdown. Show more