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Latest Legislative Update: 2025 Update 1 (Released: 05 March 2024)

We’re thrilled to let you know that Sage Pastel Payroll: 2025 Update 1 is now available to download and install.

What’s new

This update includes:

  • New South African tax tables
  • OID earnings threshold has been updated
  • OID formulae have been amended to calculate the maximum earning as per new requirements
  • Employment verification services has been updated to consider enhanced unique identifiers per payslip record, future termination dates, registration expiry, multiple employers and sync status.
  • The PayFreq table will now be copied and opened when required in order to retain history on new fields for future use.
  • The exception for SDL has been amended to look at whether a transaction is present.
  • International tax tables available 

Head to Download Manager to download now!

For a full list of what’s included, please check out this knowledgebase article

Note: Microsoft has stopped their support for Windows XP and Server 2003 in 2014 and 2015 respectively.  Due to this, these Operating systems can’t install the .Netframework required for running Payroll and doesn’t have access to the new fonts used on our update. The Payroll program will no longer work on these operating systems.  For more details on what products we can support please click here.