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  • TERS Benefit Extended - Update

    The Minster of Employment and Labour has published a new Direction. Please click here to view the new Direction. The changes contained in the new Direction are indicated in red in the original sage city post: TERS Benefit Extended from 16 October…

  • Withdrawal of TERS Effective 15 October 2020

    The Minister of Employment and Labour has withdrawn the Covid-19 TERS (Temporary Employee/Employer Relief Scheme) effective 15 October 2020. Qualifying employers can claim TERS for qualifying employees until 15 October 2020, after this, TERS will no…

  • TERS Benefit Extended until 15 November 2020

    According to Government Gazette 43693 , the TERS benefit shall remain in operation for as long as the declaration of Covid-19, in terms of the National Disaster Management Act, as a national disaster subsist or until withdrawn by the Minister, whichever…

  • New deadlines for TERS benefit applications

    TERS benefit applications for March 2020 to May 2020 will close on 25 September 2020, TERS benefit applications for June 2020 will close on 15 October 2020, and TERS benefit applications for July to 15 September 2020 will close 30 October 2020 …

  • TERS benefits extended until 15 September 2020

    The Minister of Employment and Labour published a new TERS Direction. This Direction is effective 16 August 2020 and shall remain in operation for as long as the declaration of the Covid-19, in terms of the National Disaster Management Act, as a national…

  • C19 TERS Report: Extension of TERS benefit and new TERS Direction (19/08/2020)

    The South African Minister of Employment and Labour published a new TERS Direction . This Direction is effective 27 June 2020 and extends the TERS benefits until 15 August 2020 with new rules. Below is a summary of the changes/new information. Categories…

  • Important Update: TERS and 'Covid-19 relief fund organisation' payment IRP5 codes

    On 23 April 2020, SARS released the original PAYE BRS (V19.3) which confirmed the IRP5 code to be used for TERS payments (i.e. IRP5 code 3724). On 25 April 2020, SARS published FAQ’s for employers to explain the tax relief measures. This page has been…

  • Covid-19 TERS: Benefit Application Process Guideline video published by the Department of Employment and Labour

    The Department of Employment and Labour has published a YouTube video explaining and illustrating the online TERS application procedure. Please click here to view the video.

  • UIF Guide: TERS Benefits - what happens after application

    The Department of Employment and Labour has published a TERS Guide on what happens after application. Please click here to view their guide.

  • Important information in preparation of Release 5.4c (to be released towards end of May 2020)

    The South African Ministry of Finance published the revised draft Disaster Management Tax Relief Bill and draft Disaster Management Tax Administration Relief Bill on 1 May 2020. Additional relief and changes to existing measure and calculations were…

  • C19 TERS Report for Sage Classic, Sage Premier and Sage 200c VIP - New TERS report to be released next week

    During this unprecedented and uncertain time it may be difficult for you to keep up with the various changes and interpretations on the Covid 19 Temporary Employee/Employer Relief Scheme. Equally, the same on how to use your Sage Payroll application to…

  • C19 TERS Report: FAQ documents and Solution User Guide made available by the Department of Employment and Labour

    The Department of Employment and Labour (DoEL) has published a new TERS FAQ document and a TERS Solution User Guide . These documents contain more information on how the TERS benefit is calculated, which employees and employers qualify for the benefit…

  • C19 TERS Report requirements - clarification

    Over the past few weeks we have posted various information on Sage City. Below are the links to all the posts covering the relevant topics around the relief options available, with many of them containing overlapping content: COVID-19 Temporary…

  • UIF-Covid 19 TERS National Disaster Application system now available (14/04/2020) - Updated 17/04/2020

    The Department of Employment and Labour (DoEL) has created an online system for TERS applications. Please see link below to access the online system. https://uifecc.labour.gov.za/covid19/ The users can either apply using the online system or email…

  • C19 TERS (Temporary Employee/Employer Relief Scheme) Export Report available to download (updated 06/05/2020)

    During the COVID-19 lockdown period, most companies have shut down/closed and for some employers it is not economically possible to continue to pay employees. In this case, the Department of Employment and Labour (DoEL) have created a special benefit…

  • C19 TERS (Temporary Employee/Employer Relief Scheme) - Amended Directive released 08/04/2020

    The Minister of Employment and Labour published an amended TERS Directive (Notice 240 of 2020) on 08 April 2020. Refer to the original post: COVID-19 Temporary Employee/Employer Relief Scheme (RSA) All the changes from the original post is highlighted…

  • C19 TERS Report (Temporary Employee/Employer Relief Scheme) - Interim report solution available (Release 06/04/2020) - Updated 09/04/2020

    The Department of Employment and Labour (DoEL) recently made the C19 TERS export report template available in order to extract information for the payroll. (see original post here ) The Sage development teams are awaiting confirmation for certain fields…

  • Draft Disaster Management Tax Relief and Relief Administration Bill (published 1 April 2020)

    The following information was published on 1 April 2020 and is available on the SARS website ( https://www.sars.gov.za/Media/Pages/CoronaVirus.aspx ): "Following the media statement issued by the Minister of Finance on 29 March 2020 on Tax Measures…

  • Temporary Employee/Employer Relief Scheme (TERS) - Prescribed file template requirement

    We are aware that attached email is currently being circulated by the Department of Employment and Labour to employers. TERS Email from Department of Employment and Labour.pdf In the email they request a specific template (pipe delimited CSV file…

  • COVID-19 Temporary Employee/Employer Relief Scheme (RSA)

    The South African Minister of Employment and Labour has issued a Directive called Covid19 Temporary Employee/Employer Relief Scheme (C19 TERS) effective 26 March 2020. This Directive will remain in operation for a period of 3 months or until it is withdrawn…

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