With the start of the new financial year looming ahead of us, lawmakers have been hard at work drafting legislative changes that will require Payroll administrators to keep their wits about them if they want to keep up.
With annual shutdown just around the corner for many companies, our dedicated team of coding elves have been cooking up a feature that a lot of you have been asking for.
Just in time for the festive season, we are super excited to present to you our updated leave calendar. This new calendar is more than just a pretty face; it sports a number of new features to make leave recording simpler and more accurate.
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.
