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Corporate governance and internal control consulting firm, focusing on small to medium businesses.

Experience within the agricultural, banking, construction, forestry, sawmilling and transport industries.

13/07/2026

Because SARS has implemented a staggered rollout for the standalone modernised digital platform, forestry, farming, and mining operators under rebate item 670.04 must still temporarily process their claims via the traditional VAT 201 return.

Right now, you are only required to type your aggregate totals into the form. The system has officially changed to automatically allocate 100% of your eligible liters to the claim. While the upcoming standalone system will eventually trigger strict automated validations on submission, that real-time enforcement is not active just yet.

But make no mistake: this is a compliance trap. When a Notification of Audit or Verification eventually hits your eFiling inbox, you have a very narrow window to produce a flawless, flat 10-column CSV file matching those exact numbers.

DieselFlow SA gives you absolute audit insurance. While you type the summary figures into eFiling today, our system keeps the compliant, flattened, 10-column closed-loop dataset compiled on ice. When the auditors call, your verification file is ready in a single click.

🔗 Get audit-ready insurance: www.tkba.net

07/07/2026

Physical diesel mixes continuously inside your bulk storage tanks, but on paper, SARS dictates that it never does. To comply with the modernised Diesel Refund guidelines, primary producers must evaluate fuel drawdowns using a strict First-In, First-Out (FIFO) accounting method.

You cannot claim against a new fuel delivery invoice until the total volume of your oldest active invoice has been entirely depleted in your digital logs. This means if a heavy machine refuels and straddles the end of an old batch, that single fueling event must be programmatically split into two separate entries to completely drain the old invoice balance first. Furthermore, the date on your upload line isn't the day the machine was refueled—it's the original invoice date of that chronological block.

Managing this running balance manually in Excel is an administrative nightmare. DieselFlow SA features a built-in FIFO Allocation Engine that automatically tracks remaining invoice volumes and handles row-splitting in the background, ensuring your digital trail matches tax fiction flawlessly.

🔗 Automate your FIFO tracking: www.tkba.net

02/07/2026

High-volume forestry, mining, and transport operations generate thousands of rows of fuel data every month. For many legacy systems, processing these volumes causes catastrophic failures, as strict cloud backend API rate limits (frequently capped at 150 operations per minute) choke and crash during large batch file uploads.

We engineered DieselFlow SA specifically to conquer these real-world industrial constraints. Our custom-built, throttled sequential ingestion queue implements a high-efficiency processing loop utilizing an artificial 450ms network pacing delay. Operators can drag and drop a single, raw CSV log containing over 3,000 transaction lines directly into the browser, track real-time progress via a live visual status bar, and utilize fault-tolerant catch states that automatically skip isolated corrupted lines without interrupting the batch. Customers no longer have to manually split large logistics logs into small files.

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01/07/2026

To help our clients navigate this historic shift without administrative gridlock, TKBA International is proud to unveil DieselFlow SA—a multi-tenant, enterprise-grade automated compliance platform. Engineered with a high-performance React frontend and a highly secure GDPR compliant (General Data Protection Regulation) cloud database architecture, Phase 1 of our software focuses completely on the automated SARS Schedule 6 rebate process.

Traditional operations frequently lose millions due to fragmented split-data environments, where physical fuel drop metrics are kept entirely isolated from asset logbooks. DieselFlow SA permanently replaces these legacy models with a single, synchronized data matrix (DispensingLog). This ensures that every entry captures physical drop volumes and statutory legal metadata simultaneously. Our developed system unifies physical fuel tracking, corporate procurement, and statutory audit logging into a single, automated source of truth.

🔗 Secure your governance framework: www.tkba.net

25/06/2026

HIGH-FOCUS SERIES: SARS DIESEL REBATE AND DIESELFLOW SA

Effective 1 April 2026, on-land primary sector producers across the forestry, farming, and mining industries are officially entitled to claim a refund on 100% of eligible diesel usage—a major structural increase from the historical 80% limitation. However, this massive cash flow optimization comes with strict compliance strings attached.

SARS is actively shifting its legal frameworks away from manual, VAT-linked claims submitted via the traditional VAT 201 return platform, migrating users over to a dedicated, high-integrity standalone digital Excise system. Under this modernised platform, retroactive and estimated logbooks are the number one cause of automatic audit rejections. Your record-keeping must now be completely transparent, contemporaneous, and dynamically mapped to specific registered machinery. It’s time to move your claims away from the traditional VAT 201 and build an airtight digital chain of custody.

🔗 Secure your governance framework: www.tkba.net

24/06/2026

Regulatory codes are evolving, international sustainability expectations are tightening, and operating environments are growing more complex by the day.

TKBA International remains steadfast in our foundational vision: to be the global benchmark for integrity and excellence in forestry assurance.

Our commitment to you remains absolute—bringing over 65 years of combined value-chain experience and auditor-level oversight to future-proof your organization against the regulatory shifts of tomorrow. Partner with us to empower your stakeholders to secure sustainable wealth through world-class corporate governance and uncompromising business ethics.

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17/06/2026

Many business leaders view internal auditing and corporate governance purely as an administrative expense. But when a major compliance gap closes down an entire mill, or a procurement fraud drains millions, the true value of preventative assurance becomes clear.

Rigorous operational auditing isn't a cost center; it is a high-yield insurance policy for your license to operate.

Our specialized risk-based insights directly enhance your long-term profitability by streamlining workflows, eliminating waste, and eradicating systematic fraud. At TKBA, we specialize in transforming compliance from a strict requirement into a powerful competitive advantage.

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14/06/2026

A park off with a difference at our hospitality branch within the TKBA group…

11/06/2026

Modern fraud limitation and operational risk management can't rely on random, manual sampling anymore. It requires a deliberate technical hybrid approach—combining advanced data analytics with experienced on-the-ground investigation.

With team capabilities spanning accounting, forestry operations, programming, and analytics, TKBA builds automated verification checks into your reporting frameworks.

We write the code and build the algorithms to flag transaction and volume anomalies across your transport and harvesting operations in real-time. By pairing technology with a rigorous audit lens, we identify risks and non-conformities that traditional consultants often overlook.

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09/06/2026

It’s easy to maintain a beautiful set of metrics in a boardroom spreadsheet, but the true test of governance happens out on the compartment floor. If your digital reporting systems don't perfectly match physical inventory and on-the-ground practices, your risk models are fundamentally flawed.

At TKBA, our auditor-level oversight bridges this exact gap between data and operational reality.

We don't just rely on digital handovers; we verify the inputs, check the physical boundaries, and test internal compliance right at the source. Oversight through the eyes of qualified auditors ensures that what you see on your dashboard is exactly what exists in the field.

🔗 Secure your governance framework: www.tkba.net

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