2018 Employer Annual Reconciliation Filing Season

The 2018 Employer Annual Reconciliation filing season is now open. SimplePay automatically generates the IRP5s / IT3(a)s and EMP501 needed for year-end filing with SARS and these are now available for the 2018 filing season.

You will have until 31 May 2018 to submit your Annual Reconciliation Declaration (EMP501) for 1 March 2017 – 28 February 2018 to SARS. This can be done via eFiling or the e@syFile application. You may need to update your e@syFile application to the latest version, 6.8.3. This can be done here. Please remember to back up your current information on your computer before installing a new version of e@syFile.

For more information about the bi-annual filing process, refer to this help page. We also have a useful guide to take you through it step by step. The guide contains an important checklist which will help you eliminate unnecessary validation errors when trying to upload files to e@syFile.

In preparation for this filing season, we have done some system updates to further simplify the process for you:

• Pre-validation updates:

We have added additional pre-validation measures to identify data errors are before filing with SARS.

• Consolidated IRP5s / IT3(a)s

After liaising with SARS, we have updated the way we generate tax certificates for employees who are terminated – any information on once-off payslips created after their termination date are added to the tax certificate generated for their service period if the once-off payslip date falls in the same tax year.

As always, please feel free to contact us at support@simplepay.co.za if you have any questions.

Team SimplePay