Dust off your EMP501s, it’s that time of year once again. The employer filing season opened officially on 1 September, with the deadline on 30 October 2015. You will be reconciling figures for the period 1 March 2015 to 31 August 2015. Please view our online help on this subject to ensure that everything goes smoothly.
With rumours circulating of an effective date towards the end of the year, there’s been a lot of fuss lately around the Protection of Personal Information Act, otherwise known as POPI. Luckily SimplePay has been keeping you compliant for ages already.
You may have noticed that the leave hierarchy has had a facelift. The interface is now cleaner, more intuitive and easier to use. But the improvements go far beyond aesthetics; the entire approval workflow has been updated to provide you with a simpler and more reliable experience.
We have been working hard on a new website design to provide you with an even better SimplePay experience and are very excited to announce that it just went live!
In February, the Finance Minister announced a proposed reform that would see the UIF earnings cap reduced to R1000. This essentially means that no matter how much anyone earns, UIF deductions would only be calculated from a maximum amount of R1000.
We are pleased to announce that SimplePay clients are once again some of the first to be informed of the relevant changes for the new tax year. As from 01 March 2015, your payroll will automatically meet all the requirements for the 2015/2016 period, as announced in the 2015 Budget Speech on 25 February 2015.
Important date to remember! The employer filing season for EMP501 submission starts on 01 April 2014 and will run until 30 May 2014. SimplePay has done the updates to comply with the new e@syfile layout.
We are pleased to announce that all SimplePay clients can now see what the changes are that have been made to SimplePay for the 2014/2015 financial year. As from 01 March 2014, your payroll will automatically meet all the legislative requirements, as announced by Pravin Gordhan, the Finance Minister in South Africa.
We’re proud to announce we’ve now incorporated support for ETI (Employment Tax Incentive, a.k.a. Youth Wage Subsidy) in the system. You can (and should) read more about it in the Employment Tax Incentive section of our online help.
As usual, we’ve been hard at work adding new features to the system over the past few months, but haven’t gotten around to telling you about all of them yet. So, without further ado:
