ENDOWMENT POLICY

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Good morning everyone, how do I apply the below to the payroll and which IRP5 code do I use for the earning.

  • In order to fund this, the company agrees to give the employee a special salary increase. The increase is taxed in the employee’s hands, and deductible to the company as normal salary.
  • The increase is calculated so that the after tax contribution will equal what needs to be contributed to the plan. For example, if the company wishes to pay an amount of R1 000 per month into the plan,   they would have to give the employee an increase of roughly R1 650, so that after tax is deducted (assuming a 40% tax rate), the employee would clear R1 000 to contribute.
  • The company and employee agree that while the employee will get a salary increase of (say) R1 650 per month, the employee will be obliged to contribute the after-tax amount of R1 000 to a five-year endowment policy.
  • The contribution amount needs to then be deducted from the employee as a non-taxable deduction (I created a sundry non-taxable transaction type of Pastel and named it Preferred Compensation).

This is how I understand it

 

SALARY EXAMPLE
NORMAL IRP5 CODE INCLUDING ENDOWMENT POLICY
BASIC SALARY      40 079.00 BASIC SALARY      40 079.00
POLICY         6 298.62
PAYE -      8 427.34 PAYE -    10 694.84
UIF  -         177.12 UIF  -         177.12
MEDICAL AID -      4 351.50 MEDICAL AID -      4 351.50
PROVFUND -      1 145.10 PROVFUND -      1 145.10
???? SUNDRY -      4 031.12
  25 977.94 Nett Salary   25 977.94 Nett Salary

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    Good day ,

    Thank you for your Sage City post.

    Please be advised that you will need to contact SARS or the tax practitioner for the IRP5 code so that I may assist  process the endownment policy on Sage one payroll.

    After when you have attained the IRP5 code from SARS you can follow the guide below to process it under the pay slip definitions.
    To create a new template, click on Company >> Global Payslip Definition >> Go to Payslip Definition Template >> On the right, click on add New Template >> You will be prompted to add a Name for the template, once that is done, then you can click on the + sign next to the applicable definition, and add what you want to have on your template >> Before you save, make sure that it is linked to the correct cycles and companies that you want it to be linked to

    Regards,
    Khanyi

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