By preparing your payroll for submission, you will ensure that employee records and certificates are validated, and financial values are reconciled.

The RSA SARS Submission Utility guides you to complete the submission process.

Some payroll information is required when exporting the IRP5 files, and errors may occur if the data is incorrect. The steps below will help you review and validate the payroll information to prevent potential errors and issues:

• Ensure your payroll software is on the correct release

• Validate your Company Information

• Validate Employee Information - Review your IRP5 /IT3a Warning and Errors

• Validate Additional Information

• Validate Retirement Fund Values (if applicable)

• Reconcile Employment Tax Incentive Values

• Reconcile EMP501 values with monthly EMP201 declarations and payments

• Generate Test Run IRP5 file from your payroll

• Import Test Run into SARS e@syFile

Next steps

• Once your Test Run file imports successfully, you can proceed submit your EMP501 declaration and final tax certificates to SARS
• Click here to continue with submission steps