Important Notice Regarding Bi-Annual Submission

With the August Payroll Run's fast approaching and the system telling you to start printing the Exception reports a lot of clients want to start to get their Bi-Annual Submissions over as soon as possible.

We at Sage always implore Pro-Active clients, but we have to urge clients to be patient for the upcoming Bi-Annual filling season.  Our Bi-Annual release, 2020 Update 2, will only be released mid September.

It is absolutely imperative that you DO NOT generate your Electronic Certificate for the 2019 Bi-Annuals before being on 2020 Update 2 and running a legislative release. 

Due to a new BRS Spec V18 0 3 being updated last week (7th of August 2019) and some changes that the Development team has been working on regarding linking existing Transactions to their new Tax totals and updating the masterfiles and their layout to new nature of persons the release date can not be made any earlier.

I can not stress the importance of being on 2020 Update 2 before generating your Electronic Certificates enough.

You can still clear your August Exceptions on 2020 Update 1b.
You can still process the August, September etc. Payroll run on 2020 Update 1b
You can still do your everyday processing on 2020 Update 1b

It is just exceptionally important that you DO NOT generate your Electronic certificates for Bi-Annuals before updating to 2020 Update 2 and running a legislative release.