The South African Revenue Service (SARS) required employers to submit their reconciliations twice a year.

The RSA SARS Submission Utility helps you to complete the submission process for Interim and Annual EMP501 Reconciliations.

Access the RSA Submission Utility

1. From the Main Menu, go to Utilities, then select RSA Submission.
2. Select SARS Submission Process.
   An onscreen message shows the current pay period within the tax year.
   Select Continue to proceed.

Submission process

The submission process has two sections:

• Preparation: Review all payroll data, reconcile financial values and test IRP5 tax certificate files 
• Submission: Generate the final IRP5/IT3(a) tax certificates and submit to SARS

Mark each step when you complete it to progress to the next steps. Click the Help and Guide buttons on each step for more information.

Preparation steps

• Step 1: Validate your Company Information
• Step 2: Validate your Employee information (IRP5/IT3(a) Validation warnings and errors)
• Step 3: Validate Additional Information
• Step 4: Validate Retirement Fund Values
• Step 5: Reconcile EMP501 Values
• Step 6: Perform Test Run
• Step 7:Import Test Run into e@syFile

Submission steps

• Step 8: Perform Live Run
• Step 9: Import Live Run and complete the e@syFile process
• ▼ Step 10: Upload Tax Certificates to ESS/Infoslips

  • How to upload IRP5/IT3a tax certificates to Premier ESS
  • How to upload IRp5/IT3a tax certificates to InfoSlips
• ▼ Step 11: Complete Mid-year/Tax Year End submission

  • Activate 'Stop Further Entry'
  • Back up all data for record keeping purposes
  • Print a final payroll report for audit purposes  

Submission documentation

Locate all the documents created using the RSA SARS Submission and OID Report Utilities in the SARS Submission subfolder in your payroll system folder.

1. Click SARS Submission Reports Folder to access the documents.
   
2. Select Close to exit the utility and return to the Main Menu.