{"id":533680,"date":"2021-11-02T08:17:15","date_gmt":"2021-11-02T06:17:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=533680"},"modified":"2021-11-02T08:17:15","modified_gmt":"2021-11-02T06:17:15","slug":"owning-it-with-sage-viresh-harduth-on-sages-new-vat-efiling-solution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/finance\/533680\/owning-it-with-sage-viresh-harduth-on-sages-new-vat-efiling-solution\/","title":{"rendered":"Owning it with Sage \u2013 Viresh Harduth on Sage\u2019s new VAT eFiling solution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Viresh Harduth is vice president of Small Business at Sage Africa and Middle East, and has been with the company for eight years.<\/p>\n<p>He is in charge of developing the channel for Sage\u2019s start-up and small business portfolio, including Sage Business Cloud Accounting and Sage Pastel Payroll.<\/p>\n<p>Harduth was previously director of Optimisation and Operations at Sage International, and before joining Sage, he worked at FNB in both a pricing analyst and financial analyst capacity.<\/p>\n<p>He has extensive experience across areas such as management, strategic planning, revenue generation, operational process, and business efficiencies.<\/p>\n<p>In this episode of Owning it with Sage, Harduth unpacks Sage\u2019s recently-announced VAT eFiling for Sage Business Cloud Accountants Edition.<\/p>\n<p>He discusses how this solution automates one of the biggest pain points that accountants face \u2013 VAT submissions \u2013 and explains why this is beneficial.<\/p>\n<p>Harduth notes that this VAT eFiling solution is integrated into Sage Business Cloud, and talks through how this aligns with Sage\u2019s commitment to reduce the admin burdens for customers and accountants.<\/p>\n<p>He closes by discussing new trends in the small business sector \u2013 particularly in the context of the level 1 lockdown.<\/p>\n<p>The full interview with Viresh Harduth is embedded below. Find all the Business Talk \u2013 Owning it with Sage interviews<strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/talk.businesstech.co.za\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bGaqOKFBSVw\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Viresh Harduth unpacks Sage\u2019s recently-announced VAT eFiling for Sage Business Cloud Accountants Edition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":533688,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11121],"tags":[26,15967],"class_list":["post-533680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-finance","tag-headline","tag-owning-it-with-sage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=533680"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":533710,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533680\/revisions\/533710"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/533688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=533680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=533680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=533680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}