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Year end: Export tax certificates

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Summary

Once you have cleared your Employee and Company validations in Sage Business Cloud Payroll. You can generate the electronic certificates once the submission period has opened.

Description

CAUTION: The 2025 Year End file will only be available after SARS has published the submission dates.

Resolution

NOTE: To export your TYE file, the submission period needs to be open.  You can check the submission deadlines on the SARS website.

 

On your Sage Business Cloud Payroll (SBCP) home screen:

  1. Revert back to the previous tax year. 
  2. Click Tax Certificates.
    The company details will pre-populate based on the Company Details entered.
  3. Under the submission section,
    • Click the drop-down of Select the tax year and select 2025.
    • Click the drop-down of Select the submission period and select Tax Year End.
    • Click the drop-down of Select a type of submission and select Live:
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  4. Once you complete all validations, the Create Submission button will appear at the top left of your screen.
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    *If you do not have a create submission button, you have not cleared all validations to generate a file:
    To clear your company validations, view this guide. 
    To clear your employee validations, view this guide.
  5. The file name will be TYE_2025.txt and unless otherwise specified, this file will save to your Downloads Folder.

    CAUTION: TYE_2025 is in the correct format for importing into e@syfile.  Do not alter the file to any different format.

  6. The system will now generate reports relating to your Year End. We suggest that you download or print these reports for record purposes. The reports that will generate: Tax Certificates, Reconciliation Report, EMP501, Error Report.

NOTE: We do not support the import into SARS eFiling.  We only support the import of the file to SARS e@syfile and nothing else regarding the e@syfile software.

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