The preparation of your payroll for submission will ensure that your employee records and certificates have been validated and financial values have been reconciled.

Certain payroll information is used when exporting the IRP5 files and errors can arise if the data is incorrect. The steps below will guide you to check and validate the payroll information to eliminate possible errors and issues:

• Ensure your payroll software is on the correct release

• Validate your Company Information

• Validate Employee Information / IRP5 / IT3 Warning and Errors

• Validate Additional Information

• Validate Retirement Reforms Values (if applicable)

• Reconcile EMP501 recon value with monthly declarations

• History Screen Adjustments

• Generate you Test Run file

• Import Test Run into SARS e@syFile