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Update (3 October 2023) The Payroll Authors Group (PAGSA) received confirmation from the South African Revenue Authority (SARS) that the issue has been fixed/resolved and will be implemented on their systems during the course of this week. It is…

Hi, Has anyone experienced that by accepting SARS' data when auto populating the EMP501 form values that it populates the payments section including the penalty and interests which is locked for editing.

The EMP501 Annual Reconciliation submission period for 2022/2023 is from 1 April 2023 until 31 May 2023. For more information, please click here and review the timeline section of the South Africa Revenue Service (SARS) PAYE page . If your need…

The South Africa Revenue Services require employers to submit accurate and correct information during the submission period, and employers can check the following for a successful submissions The months of January and February allow employers to check…

The deadline for submission of your EMP201 Annual Reconciliation to the South Africa Revenue Service (SARS) for the 2021/2022 tax year is Tuesday 31 May 2022. If you have not submitted your reconciliation as yet, we urge you to start as soon as possible…

Has it happened to anybody else that you log out of SARS e@syfile and when you go back all your database files are missing? If you didn't make a backup after each submission you will not have the latest info on your e@syfile . How can this "just happens…

Hi All, I am using Sage VIP Payroll Premier and when trying to generate the CSV for EMP501 mid-year submissions I am getting the following error: "Amount for Code 3713 is negative ( -1101.98)" The employee was over compensated for travel in February…

Good day, I have a client with a CSV File error when importing into Easyfile. According to payroll validation everything was in order and the CSV File generate but when it gets imported into Easyfile it fails to import with this reason. End of Record…

Hi SARS sent me the validation error letter for this years EMP501. I have found the report and it is the SDL holiday that was not allowed for sum of the employees. I'm busy correcting the SDL amounts in the history scree. What is the procedures…

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The South African Revenue Authority (SARS) has updated their PAYE page with more information. click here to view the notice, published on 15 March 2021. For more information on the letter, you can view the SARS letter to stakeholders .

On the 8th of March 2021, SARS published a notice on their website w.r.t the annual EMP501 reconciliation submission dates , which will be from 1 April 2021 – 31 May 2021. Should these dates change, it will be communicated here on Sage City.

SARS has released an updated version of e@syFile Employer, and is available to download. Click here to visit the website, download the latest software and read more about the latest release. When you access your SARS application, you will be prompted…

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This is not acceptable. I cannot go through each of my payroll companies and export and fixed April ETI then import again? I don't have time for this. SAGE needs to fix this!!

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SARS has released an updated version of e@syFile Employer, and is available to download. Click here to visit the website, download the latest software and read more about the latest release. When you access your SARS application, you will be prompted…

SARS has released the latest version of e@syFile Employer, and is available to download. Click here to visit the website, download the latest software and read more about the latest release. The e@syFile application must always be on the latest version…

The Interim Reconciliation will open on 14 September 2020 and close on 31 October 2020 . These dates are based on current information as seen on the SARS website. Click here to view more. Please note that these dates are subject to change at the discretion…

SARS published a notice on their website on August 2020 informing employers that the Covid-19 PAYE deferral is extended to include August 2020. The amended Disaster Management Tax Relief Administration Bill containing this amendment has not yet been…

In preparation for the SARS Employer Mid-year Reconciliation (EMP501) due 31 October 2020 , the Customer Service teams have implemented all possible measures to ensure our customers who require support are assisted. We do anticipate, however, that our…

SARS has released the latest version of e@syFile Employer, and is available to download. Click here to visit the website, download the latest software and read more about the latest release. The e@syFile application must always be on the latest version…

From the 2019/2020 year of assessment, SARS is performing ‘back-end’ payroll taxes calculations (validation process on PAYE and SDL) on the IRP5/IT3(a) certificates after the submission of the EMP501. If any errors are found by SARS, the employer will…

SARS has released the latest version of e@syFile Employer, and is available to download. Click here to visit the website, download the latest software and read more about the latest release. The e@syFile application must always be on the latest version…

Click here to view the Support Snippets for October 2019. Included in this month's snippets: Launching web forms for support I need assistance with the EMP501 Employer Interim Submission? Can the support team assist me with the process? After…