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:
We’re please to announce a major new feature. Self-service leave requests allow your employees to request leave from their self-service accounts, and then initiates a workflow where another employee can approve that leave.
From 1 Oct. 20012, the annual limit for income subject to UIF contributions has increased from R149,736 to R178,464. That results in a new monthly limit of R14,872 and a weekly limit of R3,432.
Due to the recent drop in interest rates by the reserve bank, the fringe benefit interest rate on low or interest free loans will now be 6% instead of 6.5%.
We’ve added 2 new features that you may find useful. The first is bulk input of recurring items, such as basic salary / hourly rates, which was previously only available for periodic items such as hours worked.
Just a reminder that the current bi-annual recon season closes in a week, on Monday 31 October. You should submit all your tax certificates to SARS by then. SimplePay has an e@syFile export function that makes this easy.
We’re pleased to announce that our clients and their employees can now see how their payroll will change in the new tax year. Payslips that fall in the 2012 / 2013 tax year will automatically meet the new legal requirements, while your payslips for the current tax year will still be calculated according to the current tax year’s rules, as you’d expect.
We’ve been so busy releasing new features lately that we haven’t taken the time to announce them:
