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  • SDL Exempt Employees

    Hello, I have been searching a while and cannot find direct legislation for this - perhaps someone can assist. We have casual workers that only worked 23 hrs for the whole month - are the exempt from SDL? These employees was on a LDC so there…
  • Tax On Bonus Provision

    Hello, We have employee linked on the Tax on Bonus Provision link - he now received increase after the link and roll has been done. How do you change the bonus provision - If there is option for bulk as well - it would be appreciated. Do one just…
  • No PAYE deduction

    We've just moved over to SBCP and so i am new to the program but not to processing salaries. I have not taken on the employee financials yet from previous ten months - but why would an employee who earns 10k (and started in 2019) only have UIF deduction…
  • PAYE changing every month

    Morning We have employees with a Basic Salary and Other Bonus on their payslips. The Other Bonus happens every month - it is additional income which needs to be shown separately and taxed. The employees PAYE tax changes every month - every month it…
  • SARS treatment for 15 Year long service award - 3622 IRP5 certificate

    Hi there, For our 15 Year Long Service awards we processed it as per the new requirements from SARS. I.e. Full amount = R20 000, split as follows: R5 000 processed against source code 3622 (NVR-Never) & R15 000 processed against source code…
  • Negative PAYE amount when terminating employee

    we use a normal tax defination method as employees are temporary in our company. when we terminate them over time, we get a negative amount on the PAYE as if we owe the employee.
  • Uganda: Tax rate for Secondary employees

    On 11th October 2022, the Uganda Revenue Authority (URA) issued a public notice informing the public about changes to the PAYE and VAT return forms. On 12th October 2022, URA issued another notice clarifying the change relating to the PAYE return form…
  • Negative Paye

    Good day, A client has contacted me with Pastel Payroll query where an employee has a negative value for the PAYE for the month, yet the negative amount is not deducting off the payslip. Is this a common problem and if not, what is the fix for this…
  • Pay As You Earn Admin Penalties now available on SARS eFiling

    From 25 April 2022, SARS will no longer accept manually filed PAYE disputes and penalty remission requests (disputes for late payment penalties and administrative penalties), this must be done via the existing SARS eFiling platform. Click here to view…
  • Pay As You Earn Admin Penalties now available on SARS eFiling

    From 25 April 2022, SARS will no longer accept manually filed PAYE disputes and penalty remission requests (disputes for late payment penalties and administrative penalties), this must be done via the existing SARS eFiling platform. Click here to view…
  • Pay As You Earn Admin Penalties now available on SARS eFiling

    From 25 April 2022, SARS will no longer accept manually filed PAYE disputes and penalty remission requests (disputes for late payment penalties and administrative penalties), this must be done via the existing SARS eFiling platform. Click here to view…
  • Add a project field to journal entries to assign PAYE labour costs to projects.

    When adding PAYE labour costs, NIC and pension contributions in the journal entry form, there should be a column to assign each line to a project rather than having to add the PAYE labour costs to each project as a project charge in addition to the journal…
  • Do your employees make monthly provision for their tax on annual bonus?

    Do your employees make monthly provision for their tax on annual bonus? If so, please check their year-to-date bonus provision before making any annual bonus payments this December. Why is it important? You want to establish that they haven’t under…
  • Do your employees make monthly provision for their tax on annual bonus?

    Do your employees make monthly provision for their tax on annual bonus? If so, please check their year-to-date bonus provision before making any annual bonus payments this December. Why is it important? You want to establish that they haven’t under…
  • PAYE FOR BIWEEKLY - NEW EMPLOYEE

    Hello, We had an employee start working with us on 06 October, he gets paid Biweekly. He earns enough to be taxed however the payslip is not showing the PAYE deduction on his biweekly payslip. I have chosen the 06 Oct as the IRP5 start date but the only…
  • Health and Social Care Levy

    The UK government recently announced extra tax changes to fund NHS and social care across the UK. Find out how this will affect your business. Find out more
  • UIF Maternity

    Good Day We have instances where employees goes on Maternity or sick then we claim from the council. during these times they still have there medical aid company contributions or sick pay contributions ect which is resulting in UIF during this time…
  • IRP5 - transferred employees

    Good day I have 2 companies where I transferred 4 employees from one company to a other. But now I have a problem on my IRP5 run. The PAYE (4102), UIF (4141) & SDL (4142) amounts doesn't count up to the Total Tax, SDL and UIF (4149) code. What did I…
  • Sage Pastel Payroll // Nett salaries keep changing

    Hi I have 2 staff members on one company where their salary is the same every month, but yet their PAYE keeps changing every month. Why is this happening? MARCH 2021 EMPLOYEE A & B R16,800 BASIC SALARY // R10,000 OTHER BONUS // R3,514-50 PAYE …
  • Voluntary PAYE Over Deduction

    I will be giving employees the option to over-deduct PAYE in order to pay less tax on their bonus in December. Does SAGE calculate the difference or is this a manual process? If I work on a budget of 60% bonus and at the end, we decide only to give a…
  • Zambia PAYE2021

    Good day, I was told by my Zambia office that the new PAYE tables are available. Is there any update from VIP available so that I can update my system, I have bi-weekly employees getting paid next week and need the new tables asap. Also, has the NAPSA…
  • Tanzania: P9, P10 and PAYE Report

    A new report template has been made available for download. Ensure that your directory is on Release 5.5a before downloading the patch file. The zip file contains the report files and information document. Please click here to visit the software downloads…
  • Mauritius: Monthly PAYE Return

    A new report template has been made available for download. Ensure that your directory is on Release 5.5a before downloading the patch file. The zip file contains the report files and information document. Please click here to visit the software downloads…
  • Lesotho: P19 Employee’s PAYE Monthly Tax Return

    A new report template has been made available for download. Ensure that your directory is on Release 5.5a before downloading the patch file. The zip file contains the report files and information document. Please click here to visit the software downloads…
  • Urgent help - how to make terminated employees net salary Zero

    Hi there everyone, I have two employees that have transferred from one company rule to another, their positions only started 01 November, so I could only process it this month. I transferred them, and in the new company everything is fine, however…