The South African Revenue Service (SARS) has issued the following notice* in regards to a specific error experienced when submitting the EMP501 declaration on SARS e@syFile. This is related to the pre-populating of the EMP201 declared liabilities.
Employers impacted by 'ERROR 0001' are advised by SARS to refrain from submission until the issue is resolved on their side.
* At the time of the post, there was no notification on the SARS website as yet.
The error message experienced, is not related to the Sage software or IRP5 export file.