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.

Before you start your preparation process, ensure your payroll software is on the correct release.

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:

• Step 1: Validate your company information
• Step 2: Validate your employee information (Review your IRP5/IT3a Validation Report warnings and errors)
• Step 3: Validate additional employee payroll information
• Step 4: Validate Retirement Fund Values (if applicable)
• Step 5: Reconcile payroll financial values (PAYE, UIF, SDL and ETI)
• Step 6: Generate Test Run IRP5 file from you payroll
• Step 7: Import the Test Run IRP5 file 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
• Continue with Submission steps >

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