Offshore Payroll Services

International clients not based/registered in S.A but are performing business activities in S.A with staff based in S.A for a extended period of time requiring compliance under S.A payroll laws.

We represent client as compliance broker in S.A for local S.A citizen employee's to ensure all legal obligations are met for them.

We will process staff under Payfocus payroll under separate unit to provide payroll services and reports only for your staff under client payroll.

Staff will also be register on Payfocus business accounts with all payroll authorities. (SARS, dept of labour, UIF)

This service will require client, to transfer the monthly scheduled salary funds which will be included on invoice via swift in time, to dispense to employee bank account and SARS as required. If funds are transferred from overseas, all swift costs must be covered by client.

Service we provide for our offshore clients with local S.A employees,

-We ensure employee's are compliant under S.A payroll related laws.
-We will run payroll as a separate division of Payfocus therefore the processing of payroll monthly is done as a separate payroll and all your information is kept and processed separately from others and handled as a individual business.
-With all submissions and activities with payroll authorities employee will be reported under Payfocus as a employee of ours. Only required information is consolidated with ours for submission of returns.
-We will only act as a compliance agent and not a labour broker.
-All employment terms and benefits are set by you.
-Management of employee work tasks is also done by yourselves.
-Separate contract between yourselves and Payfocus will be created were we will take responsibility of performing payroll obligated activities required in S.A.
-There will be No contract between us and employee and we will only communicate with him directly regarding payroll queries if you have given us the OK to do so otherwise all communication will go through you.

Service payroll features included

Payroll processing
-Load & process new employees on payroll / HR system.
-Terminate resigned/dismissed employees on Payroll /HR system
-Maintain & keep an electronic personnel file on system
-3rd party fund administration
-Monthly salary and 3rd party payments performed.
-Employee leave management
Compliance
-Monthly submissions: include SARS EMP201, U-filing, declarations to dept of labour.
-Bi-annual submissions: include SARS interim EMP501 and IRP5's
-Annual submissions: include SARS annual EMP501 and IRP5's, COIDA/RMA annual return of earnings.
-Other statutory activities include application of tax numbers, tax directives in the case of retrenchments.
-We also deal directly with dept of labour in the case were an terminated employee is experiencing difficulties with UIF claim.

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For more information view our service brochure

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