Insights
Practical payroll insights for South African employers: payroll processing, SARS compliance, EMP201 and EMP501 reconciliation, remuneration structuring and employee benefits.
How payroll processing, payslips and payroll operations work in South African organisations.
Statutory obligations, deadlines and the rules that govern deductions and declarations.
What payroll reconciliation means, what it proves and how to run it every month.
ReadThe documents, reconciliations and controls auditors and SARS ask for first.
ReadWhat employers must declare to the UIF and why late declarations block employee claims.
ReadHow to recover part of the Skills Development Levy through mandatory and discretionary grants.
ReadWhat to prepare before submitting the annual return of earnings.
ReadWhat an employer may and may not deduct from an employee's pay.
ReadEMP201, EMP501, IRP5 and the reconciliation cycle employers must complete each year.
The annualisation method SARS expects, step by step, with the traps that distort it.
ReadThe difference between the monthly declaration and the bi-annual reconciliation.
ReadHow to read an IRP5, what the source codes mean and what to do if it is wrong.
ReadPackages, cost to company, benefits, allowances and take-home pay explained.
How to read a cost-to-company offer and compare it fairly against another.
ReadHow each package component is taxed and what that means for the employee.
ReadWhy the employer's cost and the employee's take-home differ so widely.
ReadChoosing, implementing, migrating and controlling payroll systems and their data.
POPIA, payroll data security and how employee information should be handled.