SARS announces 2011 Employer Filing Season

[Martinco]

Dave,

Have you managed to get your Efiling done with 4.3.3 ?
I am attempting tomorrow !

[Martinco]

Yes also FFS ! I have now downloaded twice and both times when unpacking " the file is corrupt ! " These guys are p*ss*ng me off now !

[Dave A]

I got there in the end (I think).

• EMP501's for 2011 period 2 are now submitted.
• I have an income tax reference number for every employee, although I did have to send a couple of them into SARS and get them to register the old fashioned face-to-face way - so about an 80% success rate for registration of employees for income tax via the e@syfile program.
• The synchronisation button did produce an income tax number for all but one employee who was already registered for income tax in the end. I solved that by insisting the staff member provide me his income tax number.
• IRP5's and IT3a's all seemed to generate fine.
• My EMP501 returns balance within a few cents.

However, my PAYE dashboard seems to indicate problems (minor - under R10.00 nett discrepancy somewhere) and the recon assistant doesn't seem to be working at this stage.
I think there might be a historical reconciliation problem from a prior period

So in summary, not exactly what I'd call e@sy

I think I'm going to wander past a SARS office sometime in the next few days with my laptop, check everything is as it should be and iron out any wrinkles, current or historical.