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  • National Minimum Wage increase effective 1 March 2024

    The Minister of Employment and Labour published a Government Notice increasing the national minimum wage from R25.42 per hour to R27.58 per hour effective 1 March 2024. The R27.58 per hour rate also applies to farm workers and domestic workers, an…
  • ETI TAKE ON

    Hi One of our payrolls did not have ETI activated. How can I add the ETI for September, October and November? I have imported the take on file, but the value on the EMP201 only shows the ETI for December 2023.
  • Employee Benefits

    Hi I am a Financial Planner and find myself, almost always, in the most frustrating scenario planning stage when clients (Employers) as well as their Employees would like to see how the different options of employee benefits will look like on their…
  • Payslip - ETI

    Please help me, I think I clicked a button somewhere and now ETI is gone. When I want to print my pay slips, it doesn't show the ETI. Please advise what I am doing wrong. Thanks
  • ETI CLAIMED FOR EMPLOYEE TRANSFERRED BETWEEN COMPANIES

    If an employee gets transferred from one company to another company (different PAYE numbers and different UIF number), does his ETI period start at period 1 of 1 at the new company. The scenario is that the employees gets transferred between 3 different…
  • ETI EMPLOYEE RESIGNED AND RE EMPLOYED

    If an employee resigned and is re-employed after a couple of months, can there be ETI claimed again for the employee? Thank you
  • emp501

    I have noticed that, when I was submitting emp201, I never declared ETI. Can I go back on SARS efling and rectify that before doing emp501? Kind Regards
  • ETI report

    Good morning, We are on VIP classic. How do I print a ETI report for a SARS EMP501 verification? The ETI history report is blank but we did a take on..
  • ETI - EMPLOYEE LEFT AND LATER ON RE-ENGAGED

    Can somebody please assist. When an employee leaves the company and he was entitled to the ETI rebate for the company and comes back to the company in 2 or 3 months. Do you start ETI again for him at Period 1 of 12 or do you carry on from where he left…
  • National Minimum Wage increase effective 1 March 2023

    The Minister of Employment and Labour published a Government Notice (No. 3096, 21 February 2023) increasing the national minimum wage from R23.19 per hour to R25.42 per hour effective 1 March 2023. The R25.42 per hour rate also applies to farm workers…
  • National Minimum Wage increase effective 1 March 2023

    The Minister of Employment and Labour published a Government Notice (No. 3096, 21 February 2023) increasing the national minimum wage from R23.19 per hour to R25.42 per hour effective 1 March 2023. The R25.42 per hour rate also applies to farm workers…
  • ETI value differences errors when importing Interim EMP501 IRP5 files into SARS e@syFile

    We are aware of the following scenario resulting in SARS e@syFile import errors: You are generating the IRP5.23 file using the IRP5/IT3a report on Release 5.8a, for the 2022/2023 Interim EMP501 Reconciliation (mid-year) Submission The SARS e@syFile…
  • ETI value differences errors when importing Interim EMP501 IRP5 files into SARS e@syFile

    We are aware of the following scenario resulting in SARS e@syFile import errors: You are generating the IRP5.23 file using the IRP5/IT3a report on Release 5.8a, for the 2022/2023 Interim EMP501 Reconciliation (mid-year) Submission The SARS e@syFile…
  • Discussion: Does ETI impact your business?

    In this year’s State of the Nation Address (SONA), President Cyril Ramaphosa emphasised the role of government in helping businesses thrive so that they can create much-needed jobs in South Africa. Read more here…
  • Important: X3 HR & Payroll - South Africa Statutory Changes - May 2022

    Good day everyone The following statutory amendments have been made to the SA pay plan for the 2022-2023 tax year: Long Service Awards Taxable and non-taxable non-cash awards Taxable and non-taxable cash awards Long Service Awards…
  • ETI DATA EXTRACT - AUDIT REPORT - PRINTING AS TEXT FILE AND NOT EXCEL SPREADSHEET

    Why is it on Excel 365 that the ETI DATA EXTRACT ON AUDIT REPORTS, print as a csv comma delimited file in excel and not as a spreadsheet. It is really time consuming to go and transform all data to columns? Any solutions please? Thank you
  • Known issue: SARS e@syFile error "If Year of Assessment (3025) is 2022 and ETI Month (7006) equal not to 08, 09, 10, or 11 and ETI SEZ code (7009) is not completed and if employees age for the specified month ..." where age in error more than 100

    We are aware that a number users have experience an error message referring to ETI values calculated where the employees age is invalid, when importing the IRP5/IT3a file into SARS e@syFile, Refer to the example below where the employee's age in the…
  • ETI Validation Utility: Updated report for 2022/2023 tax year now available (7 April 2022)

    The updated Release 5.8a ETI Validation Utility for the 2022/2023 tax year is now available to download from the Sage Portal and Software Downloads page. The Utility has been updated with the ETI tables as from 1 March 2022, which was already included…
  • SARS ETI VALIDATION TOOL

    PLEASE ADVISE IF THE NEW ETI VALIDATION TOOL FILE HAS BEEN RELEASED
  • Tax Year-end 2021/2022 - ETI Validation utility not applying addition ETI tables (August 2021 - November 2021) during recalculation

    Take note - This post is only applicable to users who have updated their Tax Year-end 2021/2022 instances to Release 5.8a, and employers who registered with SARS for employee's tax purposes on or before 25 June 2021. Release 5.8a for Sage Business Cloud…
  • Tax Year-end 2021/2022 - ETI Validation utility not applying addition ETI tables (August 2021 - November 2021) during recalculation

    Take note - This post is only applicable to users who have updated their Tax Year-end 2021/2022 copy systems to Release 5.8a, and employers who registered with SARS for employee's tax purposes on or before 25 June 2021. Release 5.8a for Sage VIP Classic…
  • ETI Hours / Calculation issue

    What would cause the hours to not calculate correctly, which is affecting the Monthly Equivalent and therefore ETI? Between these 2 staff, setup is identical Note, on he screenshot, i have overridden ETI of R599.53 - But i assume i will have the usual…
  • The new ETI brackets are not updating

    On specific data sets, the ETI is calculated using the old bracket, even though the new tax files are correctly installed and applied for tax calculation purposes. We have investigated the issue and will be releasing 2023 Update 1b to rectify it.…
  • Patch Release:V22.1.3.2 (ETI Tax Total not recalculating with reduction changes and ETI Remuneration excluding CCs) (Updated Post)

    Dear Sage 300 People Customer, Updated Post!! In response to the three ETI issues identified on V22.3.1.2 ,a patch file has been released to resolve and fix : Issues Identified : • Negative ETI remuneration • ETI Remuneration Reduction definitions…
  • Employment Tax Incentive (ETI) - Amendment effective 1 March 2022 - ETI Remuneration

    here are a few amendments to ETI effective 1 March 2022. Firstly, the Minister of Finance announced an increase to the ETI values which may be claimed by qualifying employers, and a table with the ETI values was published soon thereafter. These values…