Sage VIP Classic and Sage VIP Premier

Hi One of our payrolls did not have ETI activated. How can I add the ETI for September, October and November? I have imported the take on file, but the value on the EMP201 only shows the ETI for December 2023.

Hi I am a Financial Planner and find myself, almost always, in the most frustrating scenario planning stage when clients (Employers) as well as their Employees would like to see how the different options of employee benefits will look like on their…

If an employee gets transferred from one company to another company (different PAYE numbers and different UIF number), does his ETI period start at period 1 of 1 at the new company. The scenario is that the employees gets transferred between 3 different…

If an employee resigned and is re-employed after a couple of months, can there be ETI claimed again for the employee? Thank you

Good morning, We are on VIP classic. How do I print a ETI report for a SARS EMP501 verification? The ETI history report is blank but we did a take on..

PLEASE ADVISE IF THE NEW ETI VALIDATION TOOL FILE HAS BEEN RELEASED

I had to roll over to Dec payroll. But I need to take off the ETI relief settings before I can process Dec hours. Can I do this manually or must I wait for SAGE to release some update first? I am pressured for time here..

Good day After submission of our mid-year IRP5's there was a difference of +- R73000.00 owing to SARS l had gone back and reconciled IRP5's and found no differences on the submission from my side. Could there be a problem with the ETI? l have read…

Need some assistance with ETI sets and count validation errors. how to fix them what it relates to etc.... I tried contacting the Sage help desk, to assist with fixing of errors, but was informed that we need to make use of consultant? Anyone able…

Hi How do I adjust the ETI values calculated where SARS did not allow an ETI deduction for a specific month?

We urgently need to get the CORRECT ETI VALIDATION TOOL for 5.7A please. We need to start submitting EMP501's and we cannot do so before we are 100% sure that ETI is correct. It is almost the end of the month, we could have started with submissions…

When will the new ETI VALIDATION TOOL be available. We need to start submitting EMP501's and are sceptical to do so before the new ETI UTILITY TOOL. Please advise urgently. Thank you

I have installed the Update 5.7a I note that only employees who normally qualify for ETI have had the additional amount added. The SARS notes indicate that all employees under 65 who earn under 6500 attract ETI under the relief scheme.

Good day at first I removed Additional ETI Relief option and did a recalculation and use the ETI tool. The tool indicate that all the employee's were allocated to VIP Premier allocate to Period Set 3/ Period Count 1 and when I ran the tool the tool…

Good Day, We have copied the ETITool_R56b_20210708 patch file into my VIP directory, replaced the necessary file as prompted. We have updated ODBC (just in case) and am now getting the following error when trying to extract step two of the ETI Validation…

We can not wait for the upgrade because our month-ends and processing for EMP201 etc. need to happen not later than 02.09.2021. We have over a 1000 workers ( in more than one VIP company, on weekly and bi-weekly), and it is not practical to re-do the…

Good day, Please advise on Weekly payrolls that need to roll over into the 1st week of September, can in fact roll over in the meantime or do we need to wait for the 6th as well due to the ETI update?

I have been working on VIP for 29 years and for the last 21 years been advocating that VIP is the nr 1 Payroll system in South Africa. I am currently on VIP Classic and as you can see I have been a client of VIP forever. I am lately so unhappy with…

The Taxation Laws Amendent Act, 2020 and the Tax Administration Laws Amendment Act 2020 were published on 20 January 2021. The document explains the most important payroll related amendments according to these Acts. All changes are effective March…

Good day after the update to 5.5b on VIP Premier in January 2021 .I have some issues on the ETI. Even if you correct information with the ETI Tool the error doesn't go away and it doesn't pull some of the information through that was there before…

I am really concerned about this tool. It is inconsistant. Example: You run the tool and it displays the red error columns and the adjustment totals. If you run the tool again, figures change to R1-00. How is this possible? The next question I have…

Hi I have 2 employees with an ETI start date AFTER their date engaged. Unsure of how this happened. I tried to correct with ETI take-on but it didn't work, Any other suggestions please? Thank you

Hi There is an ETI amount for this person in Apr but it should not be there - the company does not utilise the ETI benefit. Below are the errors from Easyfile - how can I remove it on VIP? Thank you, Roslynne LINE NUMBER: 10 STATUS: 7650808407202108VIPC0014300009…

Good day, I did all the updates I am aware of with regards to the ETI but when I am running the EMP501 on the RSA submissions tool the ETI amount is incorrect. It's the same issue we had previously with the EMP501 on the History reports screen. …

Hi We have a monthly and a bi-weekly company with the same PAYE number. When I export the e@syfile file for "mulitple companies"the system does not print the ETI values on the IRP5/IT3a summary report. When I select to export one company at a time…