Sandton · Gauteng

Payroll Services in Sandton

Sandton is South Africa's corporate centre — banking, asset management, law, consulting and multinational head offices with complex remuneration structures. Patuza handles SARS submissions (EMP201, EMP501, IRP5), UIF, SDL and payslips for Sandton employers — fixed monthly pricing, no lock-in, POPIA-aligned.

Why Sandton businesses choose Patuza

SARS-registered practitioner

Registered Tax Practitioner + Certified Payroll Practitioner. EMP201, EMP501, IRP5, UIF and SDL submitted on your behalf.

Local to Sandton

We work with Sandton-based SMEs, professional firms and franchises across Sandton CBD, Sandown, Rivonia and surrounds.

Fixed monthly pricing

Per-payslip pricing with no setup fees. Switch mid-year without breaking IRP5s at year-end.

Payroll for Sandton head offices and professional firms

Sandton payroll carries the country's most complex remuneration: share schemes and vesting events, bonuses and long-term incentives, expatriate and cross-border employees, travel and cellphone allowances, and directors paid partly through fees. Each of those has its own SARS treatment, and getting the code wrong only surfaces at EMP501 reconciliation. We apply the correct IRP5 codes as the payroll runs, not afterwards.

Firms in Sandton CBD, Sandown, Rivonia, Illovo and Bryanston also need confidentiality. Executive pay stays inside a restricted approval chain, and only the reconciled totals reach the finance team. Payslips are delivered securely, third-party payments to medical schemes, provident funds and garnishee orders are made on time, and your auditors get a clean payroll file at year-end.

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What's included for Sandton employers

Monthly payroll processing & payslips
SARS EMP201 filing (PAYE, UIF, SDL)
Bi-annual EMP501 reconciliations
IRP5 / IT3(a) generation at year-end
UIF declarations (uFiling)
Leave & timesheet tracking
Third-party payments (medical, pension, garnishees)
New engagement & termination processing
SARS query & audit support
Payroll journals & GL reconciliation for your accountant
Payroll accounting support for bookkeepers & audit files

Industries we serve in Sandton

Sector-specific payroll rules — bargaining councils, MIBFA, MEIBC, NBCRFLI, provident funds — handled correctly the first time.

Councils and determinations we work with around Sandton: Private security (NBCPSS), Contract cleaning (NBCCS).

Who we work with at Sandton employers

Payroll touches the owner, the finance team and HR differently. Here is what each of them gets from Patuza.

Business Owner / Founder

Everything a growing South African employer needs — SARS registrations, compliant payslips and monthly submissions — for a predictable per-payslip fee.

CFO / Finance Director

A payroll you can reconcile, defend in audit and forecast from — with EMP201s, EMP501s and the general-ledger interface handled to deadline.

Financial Manager

Balanced payroll journals, cost-centre reporting and third-party schedules delivered before your month-end close — every cycle.

HR Director / HR Manager

Accurate payslips, defensible leave balances and clean terminations — so HR spends its time on people, not pay queries.

Payroll Manager

Extra capacity and a second pair of expert hands — parallel runs, leave liability, council rates and EMP501 reconciliation handled with you, not around you.

Office Manager / Bookkeeper

Hand the payroll over with confidence — Patuza takes the processing and the deadlines, and you keep control and visibility.

Remuneration & Benefits Lead

Package structuring, fringe-benefit treatment and bonus tax modelled correctly before the pay run — not corrected afterwards.

Tax & Compliance Manager

SARS submissions that reconcile first time — EMP201, EMP501, IRP5/IT3(a), tax directives and ETI claims prepared with the evidence to back them.

Internal Audit & Risk

Independent payroll processing with logged masterfile changes, exception reports and segregation of duties your auditors can test.

Areas we serve around Sandton

Patuza is 100% cloud-based, so we serve every suburb — each area below has its own payroll page:

Payroll resources for Sandton employers

Sandton council rulings & SARS guidelines

Bargaining councils & local rulings

No sector council
Most Sandton professional, financial and head-office employers fall outside bargaining councils; the BCEA and your employment contracts set leave, notice and overtime terms.
City of Johannesburg
Head offices registering a new branch payroll must keep the SARS employer address aligned with the Johannesburg municipal account used on the lease.

SARS guidelines

Tax directives
Severance, retirement and lump-sum payments need an IRP3(a)/(s) directive from SARS before the payroll run — apply at least a week ahead.
EMP201 due date
PAYE, UIF and SDL are declared and paid on an EMP201 by the 7th of the following month, or the last business day before it if the 7th falls on a weekend or public holiday.
EMP501 reconciliation
Interim reconciliations cover March to August and are filed in the September/October window; annual reconciliations cover the full tax year and are filed from April, with IRP5/IT3(a) certificates issued to employees.

Last reviewed 2026-09-10. Rulings change — confirm current wage schedules with your council before each increase date.

Sandton payroll FAQ

How much does outsourced payroll cost in Sandton?+

Most Sandton employers pay between R90 and R180 per payslip per month, with no setup fee. The price is fixed monthly and covers processing, payslips, EMP201 filing, UIF declarations and year-end IRP5s.

Which Sandton industries does Patuza handle payroll for?+

Banks and asset managers, law and consulting firms, insurers, fintech and media businesses, plus mining and retail head offices. We build the earnings, deduction and allowance structures those employers actually use, rather than a generic template.

Do you deal with the bargaining councils that apply in Johannesburg?+

Sandton head offices mostly sit outside bargaining councils, but we handle the security and contract-cleaning councils where those services are employed directly, along with provident, medical and share-scheme deductions. Contributions are calculated per member each pay cycle and the council returns are filed on your behalf.

Do we have to be in Sandton itself to use Patuza?+

No. Patuza runs entirely in the cloud, so we serve Sandton, Rivonia, Bryanston, Fourways and the wider northern suburbs and the surrounding district with the same turnaround. Documents are exchanged securely and no site visit is required.

Can a Sandton business move to Patuza in the middle of a tax year?+

Yes. We take over from Sage, SimplePay, PaySpace, Pastel or a spreadsheet mid-year without breaking the IRP5 reconciliation. Take-on usually runs two to four weeks, including a parallel run so the figures agree before we go live.

Who at our company would work with Patuza day to day?+

Usually the owner, financial manager or HR lead. We give each of them what they need — a reconciled payroll journal for finance, clean leave and engagement records for HR, and a single monthly figure for the owner.

Do you handle expatriate payroll for Sandton head offices?+

Yes. We apply the section 10(1)(o)(ii) foreign-employment exemption where the day-count is met, run shadow payrolls for inbound assignees and report the correct foreign-income source codes on the IRP5.

How are share options and bonuses taxed on a Sandton executive payroll?+

Section 8C gains are taxed on vesting through the payroll under their own source codes, and annual bonuses are taxed using the SARS directive or the standard annual-equivalent method, whichever your policy requires.

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Opening hours

  • Monday09:00 – 16:30
  • Tuesday09:00 – 16:30
  • Wednesday09:00 – 16:30
  • Thursday09:00 – 16:30
  • Friday09:00 – 15:30
  • SaturdayClosed
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