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title: "Prepare and Review VAT201"
space: "SA End-User Guide"
url: "https://wiki.cohenix.cloud/sa-user-guide/working-with-vat/vat201-review"
updated: "2026-08-17"
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# Prepare and review VAT201

Open the VAT201 Return, fetch transactions and work through the linked-transaction report. Do not submit while unresolved items or reconciliation differences remain. Compare the totals, source snapshots and GL snapshots with the VAT ledgers and source-document evidence.

Submission in ERPNext prepares the checksummed working paper and draft core filing only. The recorded reviewer must
mark that filing Reviewed and the separate recorded approver must submit it. Complete eFiling and payment
externally, then have an authorised user prepare the SARS reference/private receipt and a different recorded
manager submit that receipt.

For a correction, cancel in this order: submitted receipt, VAT201 Return, then linked ZA Filing. Only then amend the
VAT201. The app does not send the return to SARS; the PDF and export remain working papers.