February is the shortest on the calendar, but also the most important month for South African payrolls - its the last month of the tax year!
Here are a few tips shared on the community, which might help you to get your payroll ready for tax year-end:
- Now is a good time to reconcile the PAYE, SDL, UIF and ETI (if applicable) for the previous 11 months! This will save you time by only being required to reconcile the last month. Click here for a guide on reconciling your payroll
- Print your IRP5/IT3a Validation report - if there are any issues or missing information that might affect generating the tax certificates, this can be resolved BEFORE starting the new tax year! Click here for a guide to print the validation report. (if you get any validation errors, please search on the Sage Knowledgebase for more details to resolve any errors)
- Access the Year-end Centre for all the resources you need
- When you start the new tax year, a new Tax Year End instance will be created and all companies starting a new pay period for March 2024, will be copied to the February 2024 Tax Year End instance. Click here more of this process. You will use the Tax Year End instance to generate your tax certificates to the Receiver of Revenue while continue processing in your live payroll.
- Plan your submission before the deadline: We have seen so many times where employers try to complete the full process right before the submission deadline, placing unnecessary pressure on themselves to get this done in time. Put some time aside to prepare your payroll data and complete your submissions as soon as filing season opens (dates to be confirmed by SARS. If there any problems or issues, you still will have enough time to resolve it and submit your tax certificates to SARS in time, well before the deadline. This will save you time and frustrations of waiting for assistance in the last few days of filing season (with the deadline end of May 2024).
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