e@syFile Error: "Employer SEZ Code invalid - code 2083"

You are importing the IRP5 files for either the Annual or Interim SARS Submission into e@syFile and the import fails.

• Check if the company is linked to a Special Economic Zone (SEZ) code on the Basic Company Information screen. Employment Tax Incentive Tab
• If the company is linked to an SEZ code, only the following are valid and accepted by SARS:

Linking any employee to an incorrect/invalid SEZ code will result in the ETI calculation ignoring the age of the employee, and ETI will calculate. The system does not validate codes captured by the user. It is the payroll administrators responsibility to ensure that the SEZ code is correct

Determine if the SEZ is correct and if the employees should be linked. If not, remove the SEZ code from the Basic Company Information Screen as well as from the employee Information (IS) Screens, on the ETI tab.

NOTE:  We were aware of an issue where the SEZ code returns after removing the code on the Basic Company Information Screen - Employment Tax Incentive tab, resulting in the same error when importing the IRP5 file. Should this occur, the work-around is to access the IRP5 file in Notepad and to remove code 2083 (as well as the comma) and the SEZ code from the file. Save the file and reimport into e@syFile.