Johannesburg is South Africa's economic engine — home to Sandton, Rosebank and Midrand, and the highest concentration of SMEs in the country. Patuza handles SARS submissions (EMP201, EMP501, IRP5), UIF, SDL and payslips for Johannesburg employers — fixed monthly pricing, no lock-in, POPIA-aligned.
Registered Tax Practitioner + Certified Payroll Practitioner. EMP201, EMP501, IRP5, UIF and SDL submitted on your behalf.
We work with Johannesburg-based SMEs, professional firms and franchises across Sandton, Rosebank, Randburg and surrounds.
Per-payslip pricing with no setup fees. Switch mid-year without breaking IRP5s at year-end.
Johannesburg carries more payroll complexity per employer than anywhere else in the country. A single Gauteng group can hold salaried head-office staff in Sandton or Rosebank, commission earners in retail across Fourways and Eastgate, MEIBC- and MIBFA-rated artisans in City Deep, Wynberg and Booysens, and NBCRFLI drivers moving stock out of the southern industrial belt — each with its own rate table, allowance set and council return. We build those structures once, then run them every cycle so the EMP201 total, the council schedules and the general ledger agree without a month-end scramble.
The second Johannesburg problem is turnover. High staff movement in retail, security, logistics and hospitality means constant engagements, terminations, leave payouts and UI-19 declarations, and every one of them has to be reflected correctly before EMP501 season. Patuza processes the movement as it happens, issues certificates of service and IRP5s on time, and keeps the UIF declarations current so a former employee's claim never lands back on your desk.
Practically, most of our Johannesburg clients never see us in person. Payroll runs in the cloud, payslips are delivered securely to staff in Randburg, Roodepoort, Soweto, Alexandra, Midrand and the CBD alike, and the owner or financial manager gets one reconciled pack each month. Pricing is a fixed amount per payslip with no setup fee, and we take over from Sage, SimplePay, PaySpace or a spreadsheet mid-year with a parallel run first.
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Sector-specific payroll rules — bargaining councils, MIBFA, MEIBC, NBCRFLI, provident funds — handled correctly the first time.
Partner and associate structures, billable-hour bonuses, temporary and placed staff, and TES compliance.
See how we run it →Weekend and public holiday pay, commission structures, casual and student staff, and multiple store cost centres.
See how we run it →Driver trip and subsistence allowances, NBCRFLI contributions, night work and overtime capped correctly.
See how we run it →BIBC and civil-engineering council rates, site allowances, weekly wages, and workers moving between projects mid-month.
See how we run it →Shift premiums, overtime and Sunday pay under BCEA, MEIBC and MIBCO rates, short time and production bonuses.
See how we run it →Tips and service charges, split shifts, live-in staff, and high turnover with constant engagements and terminations.
See how we run it →Commission and bonus schemes, retirement and risk benefit deductions, and clean audit-ready payroll journals.
See how we run it →Donor-funded posts split across grants, stipends versus salaries, and reporting per funder.
See how we run it →Patuza is 100% cloud-based, so we serve every suburb — each area below has its own payroll page:
Which model fits your headcount and budget.
ReadReal 2026 pricing benchmarks and hidden costs.
ReadSARS-aligned PAYE, rebates and medical credits.
Read1% + 1% split and the current ceiling.
ReadBCEA s.41 plus SARS lump-sum tax.
ReadBCEA notice periods and pay in lieu.
ReadLast reviewed 2026-09-10. Rulings change — confirm current wage schedules with your council before each increase date.
For most Johannesburg SMEs, outsourced payroll costs between R80 and R150 per payslip per month, with no setup fees. Patuza pricing is fixed monthly and includes SARS EMP201 filings, IRP5s and UIF declarations.
Yes. As a Registered Tax Practitioner we file EMP201s monthly, EMP501 reconciliations bi-annually, and IRP5/IT3(a)s at year-end for every Johannesburg client — including SARS query and audit support.
Yes. We migrate mid-year without breaking IRP5s. Typical take-on takes 2–4 weeks with a parallel run to confirm figures match cent-for-cent before go-live.
Yes. We sign a written operator agreement, encrypt payroll data in transit and at rest, and limit access on a need-to-know basis in line with POPIA.
Yes — MIBFA, MEIBC, NBCRFLI, BCCEI and others. We calculate levies, benefit contributions and file returns on the council portals directly.
Yes. Patuza is 100% cloud-based. We serve Sandton, Rosebank, Randburg, Midrand, Fourways, JHB CBD and every other suburb without an in-person visit.
Most commonly MEIBC for engineering, MIBFA and MIBCO for metal and motor, NBCRFLI for road freight, BCCEI for civil engineering and the security and cleaning sectoral determinations. We register you where required and file each council return per pay cycle.
Yes. Engagements, terminations, leave payouts, UI-19 declarations and certificates of service are processed in the cycle they happen, so the EMP501 reconciliation and UIF records stay accurate all year rather than being rebuilt at year-end.
Yes. Each entity is run on its own PAYE reference with its own EMP201, and we give the group a consolidated cost report and payroll journal across all entities.
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