Summary
Complete your Employer Interim/Annual Reconciliation (EMP501) Submission following the steps of RSA SARS Submission Utility on Sage Payroll Professional.
Description
The South African Revenue Service (SARS) requires South African employers to submit reconciliations twice a year.
The RSA SARS Submission Utility helps you complete the Interim and Annual EMP501 reconciliation submission process successfully.
Resolution
Access the RSA Submission Utility in your company.
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
Preparation steps
- Step 1: Validate company information
- Step 2: Validate employee information (IRP5/IT3(a) Warnings and Errors)
- Step 3: Validate additional employee information
- Step 4: Validate retirement fund values
- Step 5: Reconcile EMP501 values
- Step 6: Perform Test Run export
- Step 7: Import Test Run IRP5 file into SARS e@syFile™ Employer
Submission steps
- Step 8: Perform Live Run export
- Step 9: Import Live Run IRP5 file into SARS e@syFile™ Employer and complete the submission process
- Step 10: Distribute tax certificates to employees (tax year end only)
- Step 11: Finalise your tax year-end process
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