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The Minister of Employment and Labour published a Government Notice increasing the national minimum wage from R25.42 per hour to R27.58 per hour effective 1 March 2024.
The R27.58 per hour rate also applies to farm workers and domestic workers, an…
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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.
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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…
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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..
The Minister of Employment and Labour published a Government Notice (No. 3096, 21 February 2023) increasing the national minimum wage from R23.19 per hour to R25.42 per hour effective 1 March 2023.
The R25.42 per hour rate also applies to farm workers…
We are aware of the following scenario resulting in SARS e@syFile import errors:
You are generating the IRP5.23 file using the IRP5/IT3a report on Release 5.8a, for the 2022/2023 Interim EMP501 Reconciliation (mid-year) Submission
The SARS e@syFile…
The updated Release 5.8a ETI Validation Utility for the 2022/2023 tax year is now available to download from the Sage Portal and Software Downloads page.
The Utility has been updated with the ETI tables as from 1 March 2022, which was already included…
Take note - This post is only applicable to users who have updated their Tax Year-end 2021/2022 copy systems to Release 5.8a, and employers who registered with SARS for employee's tax purposes on or before 25 June 2021.
Release 5.8a for Sage VIP Classic…
There are a few amendments to ETI effective 1 March 2022.
Firstly, the Minister of Finance announced an increase to the ETI values which may be claimed by qualifying employers, and a table with the ETI values was published soon thereafter. These values…
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..
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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…
Customers claiming ETI must install the latest ETI Validation patch as soon as possible.
We’ve identified a few scenarios which requires updated ETI payroll files to ensure that your ETI reflects accurately.
What does the patch fix?
It was established…
The updated ETI Validation tool for Release 5.7a is available on Software downloads (under Patch Files) and on the Sage Portal .
Customers claiming ETI in the current tax year (TYE2021/2022) must download and save the ETITool_R57a.zip file, then extract…
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.
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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.
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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…
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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…
With the introduction of additional Employment Tax Incentive relief during 2020, multiple software updates and required changes being implemented by the payroll administrator, we understand that many have found it difficult to reconcile their ETI easily…
I read an article indicating that the software update with the ETI changes, will be available from 23 August 2021, however no recent updates have been made available on the customer zone?