Payroll legislation, product updates, and expert insights from across Africa, the UK, Brazil, and beyond.

Deel Local Payroll has launched embedded payroll payments, giving UK businesses a simpler, more secure way to pay employees directly from the platform. The new capability lets payroll managers and bureaus run payroll and pay every employee...
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On 1 March 2026, South Africa's Compensation for Occupational Injuries and Diseases (COID) earnings threshold will increase, affecting how employers calculate assessment contributions. If you manage payroll in South Africa, here's what you...
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How changes to the Code of Good Practice on Dismissal modernise labour management. People are at the centre of every business. They bring perspective, ideas, skills, and experience that help companies excel and succeed. However, it doesn’t...
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South Africa’s Draft Rates and Monetary Amounts and Amendment of Revenue Laws Bill, published following the 2026 Budget Speech, proposes amendments to certain Income Tax Act exemptions and retirement fund tax deduction limits, effective 1...
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This will be the year that human resources settles into its strategic role. HR management has transformed since it first appeared in the early 1900s. Dashboards, data, self-service and other technology-powered features save time, improve...
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The Minister of Finance delivered the National Budget on 25 February 2026, announcing amendments under the Income Tax Act that affect payroll for the 2026/2027 tax year. The changes cover personal income tax brackets and rebates, medical...
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Zimbabwe has introduced a preferential income tax rate for qualifying expatriate employees working in declared International Financial Services Centres (IFSCs). The rate, and the reporting obligations that come with it, take effect from 1...
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Niger has aligned the minimum base for social security contributions with the national minimum wage (SMIG). The change affects how the contribution base is calculated for the CNSS scheme. Here is what payroll teams need to apply. What is...
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Kenya has revised its National Social Security Fund (NSSF) contribution limits, effective 1 February 2026. The update reflects Year 4 of the phased implementation under the NSSF Act and raises both the lower and upper earnings limits. Here...
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Sierra Leone’s annual tax changes for 2026 affect two areas that matter for payroll: the treatment of redundancy and termination payments, and withholding tax on payments to non-residents. Here is what changed and the legislative reference...
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The Democratic Republic of the Congo has revised the INPP contribution rates that employers pay, effective 1 January 2026. The change is employer-only and adjusts existing rates rather than introducing a new contribution. Here is what...
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Eswatini has increased the Eswatini National Provident Fund (ENPF) maximum wage level, which raises the contribution ceiling for both employers and employees. Here is the change and what it means for your payroll run. What is changing....
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Work has changed. Hybrid teams, remote workers, global contractors, real-time expectations. The demands on payroll, HR, and finance have multiplied. But a lot of payroll software hasn't moved with them. The 2025 Deel Australia Payroll...
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On 26 June 2025, Nigeria enacted several new tax laws, including the Nigeria Tax Act, which makes significant changes to personal income tax, allowances, and the definition of residency for payroll purposes. The changes take effect from 1...
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The Mauritius Revenue Authority (MRA) issued a Circular to Employers on 6 October 2025 setting out two payroll changes: a revised valuation of the company car benefit, and collection of the new Fair Share Contribution (FSC) through PAYE....
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Earned Wage Access (EWA) lets employees draw down a portion of their earned-but-unpaid wages between paydays. The model has grown rapidly across global markets as a financial wellness tool — particularly for employees living paycheque to...
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Switching payroll providers feels like a big decision, and it should be. But sticking with the wrong one is more expensive than most teams realise. The slow erosion of trust, the workarounds that compound, the legislative updates that...
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Employee turnover is one of the most-talked-about HR metrics and one of the most misunderstood. Calculated well, it tells you where the business is leaking talent and how much it's costing. Calculated badly, it produces numbers that feel...
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Microsoft has moved to three days a week in the office. Amazon to five. Other employers have stayed fully remote. The headlines treat this as a culture war, but the practical question for most businesses is simpler: can the HR and payroll...
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In Eswatini, individuals pay income tax on income earned in or from within the country under a source-based system. The Income Tax Order, 1975 sets out how PAYE is calculated and collected, and the obligations fall squarely on the...
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The Finance (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2025 was published in Government Gazette No. 66 on 9 August 2025, introducing several amendments to the Income Tax Act that affect Mauritian payroll from 1 July 2025. The changes span the "exempt...
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On 17 July 2025, Ethiopia's House of People's Representatives approved Income Tax Amendment Proclamation No. 1395/2025, with effect from 1 July 2025. The reforms reshape personal income tax brackets, raise the tax-free threshold, and...
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Accurate, timely payroll affects costs, tax compliance, and employee morale, and many businesses assume that keeping it in-house is automatically the better choice. In today’s environment, that assumption can prove expensive. Clinging to...
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Which expenses can I claim? Can I get a copy of my payslip? How do I apply for leave? These are the routine questions admin teams field constantly, and automating them through self-service is an obvious win: it frees up payroll and HR...
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Manual payroll looks like the cheap option. No software licence, no subscription, no implementation cost. But the accounting logic stops there. Every error in a manual run creates rework. Every compliance update that's missed creates...
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Many payroll operations still miss out on modern capabilities, single-source-of-truth data, automation, employee self-service, and AI, because of understandable concerns about security, compliance, and confidentiality. Ageing systems feel...
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When businesses go global with payroll, they face an early choice that shapes everything that follows: do you run the payroll yourselves on self-service software, or do you outsource it to a managed payroll provider? Both models have...
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SARS released version 24.0.0 of the PAYE Business Requirements Specification on 26 March 2025, with effect from 1 March 2025 for payroll suppliers and September 2025 for SARS systems. The BRS sets the rules for generating tax certificates...
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Where are the skills gaps in your business? What does it cost to hire and onboard someone? How should you forecast overtime, bonuses, or upcoming expenses? The answers exist, hidden inside the data your HR and payroll systems already...
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Deel Local Payroll powered by PaySpace, um provedor líder de soluções inovadoras de folha de pagamento, e PMóvel, um nome proeminente em soluções de Ponto e Acesso (T\&A) no Brasil, anunciaram hoje uma parceria comercial estratégica. Esta...
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National Treasury announced changes to the South African Employment Tax Incentive (ETI) effective 1 April 2025. The headline change: the maximum qualifying monthly remuneration rose from R6,500 to R7,500, broadening the pool of employees...
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Following the Chancellor’s Autumn Budget on 30 October 2024, Parliament approved several payroll-affecting changes for the 2025/2026 tax year. The key updates, effective from 6 April 2025 unless stated otherwise, are below. Scotland...
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The Minister of Employment and Labour has published a Government Notice increasing the OID earnings threshold for the 2025/2026 assessment year. Here is the new figure and what it affects. The new threshold. The OID earnings threshold...
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South African payroll teams have had a busy year. The 2025/2026 tax year brought a new SARS PAYE BRS, an ETI uplift, a higher OID earnings threshold, BCEA changes, and stricter rules on employee tax reference numbers from February 2026...
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A year after being acquired by Deel, PaySpace has officially become Deel Local Payroll, powered by PaySpace. This is more than a name change; it is the next step in the strategic vision behind the acquisition. Customers keep the same...
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The Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT), in consultation with the National Pensions Regulatory Authority (NPRA), revised the maximum insurable earnings for 2025. Here are the figures employers need to apply. The revised...
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February 2025 brought two updates for Kenyan payroll teams: the next step in the NSSF Act's phased contribution schedule, and a revised meal benefit exemption threshold under the Tax Laws (Amendment) Act 2024. Both changes affect the...
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Employee benefits are a major part of compensation in Brazil and a key tool for attracting and keeping talent. Their tax treatment, though, varies a great deal, and getting the classification wrong risks penalties. Here is how the most...
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The official rate of interest, used to calculate the taxable fringe benefit on low-interest or interest-free debt owed by an employee to their employer, changed following the Reserve Bank’s repo rate decision. Here is what applies. The...
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Enterprise resource planning software has been a cornerstone technology for decades. But ERP belongs to an earlier era, and holding onto an ageing system increasingly does more harm than good. When one major South African bank needed to...
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The start of a new year is a natural moment to reflect on your HR and payroll strategy and set ambitious goals, the kind that revitalise company culture and align teams around shared objectives. It is also a moment that is easy to waste on...
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Payroll is one of the most critical parts of running a business, and in Brazil, where labour and tax laws are complex and strict, mistakes can lead to heavy fines and legal trouble. These are the five most common payroll errors Brazilian...
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UK employers face a constantly shifting HR and payroll environment in 2025, with updated laws, changing employee expectations, and new technology to keep pace with. Staying on top of it is essential to managing people well and keeping...
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Most companies pour energy into optimising processes and productivity, while overlooking a pairing that sits right in front of them. Payroll and HR both centre on employees, yet they have traditionally been kept separate, partly by...
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For UK businesses, compliance with HMRC is essential, and a large part of it comes down to submitting statutory reports accurately and on time. These reports give HMRC the detail of a company’s payroll: employee earnings, tax deductions,...
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Most employee self-service portals exist in places employees never go. Web logins that need a password reset. Apps that need installation. Email reminders that get lost. Meanwhile, every employee in your workforce uses WhatsApp every day....
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For UK businesses of any size, managing payroll and meeting HMRC requirements can feel daunting. Ever-changing regulations, manual processes, and the fear of penalties make it a burden it does not need to be. The goal is to streamline...
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The UK Employment Rights Bill, introduced in 2024, represents one of the most substantial reforms to UK employment law in over a generation. For businesses operating UK payroll — whether headquartered in the UK or running UK operations...
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On 13 September 2024, the Government of Mauritius issued the Remuneration Regulations (Workers Remuneration Amendment Regulations) 2024, requiring employers to pay employees a wage relativity adjustment. Here is what employers need to do. ...
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The relationship between payroll and HR has long been one of function rather than strategy. Payroll is seen as an administrative necessity, processing wages, handling benefits, and managing compliance, while HR drives people strategy,...
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Payroll reporting is one of the most complex jobs a business faces. Juggling databases, manual entry, and the risk of error eats time and invites costly mistakes. Automated reporting offers a way out, turning a chaotic process into a...
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Salaries are one of the largest costs a small or mid-market business carries, yet smaller teams are often the least equipped to handle complex payroll. The good news is that cloud-native platforms now put the same capability large...
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The payroll profession has changed faster in the last five years than in the previous twenty. Cloud-native platforms have rewritten what the day-to-day work looks like. Compliance has become more complex as legislatures across Africa...
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Many businesses assume that because their data sits in the cloud, it is automatically backed up and recoverable. It usually is not. A cloud provider backs up its own service to keep it running, which is not the same as backing up your data...
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Lesotho's income tax amendments for the 2024/2025 tax year took effect on 1 April 2024, with updated Personal Income Tax brackets and a revised tax credit. Payroll teams running Lesotho runs need to verify the April recalculation, decide...
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Many businesses find themselves wrestling with over-complicated payroll software, bogged down by the demands of extensive customisation. There is a better path. A well-configured system, built on a feature set that already covers most...
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The Occupational Injury and Disease (OID) earnings threshold in South Africa is the cap on the per-employee earnings used to calculate an employer's COIDA assessment. The Minister of Employment and Labour updates this figure annually as...
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The business world changes constantly. New regulations, evolving workforce needs, and unexpected events all force organisations to adjust quickly, sometimes at very short notice. The question is whether your payroll and HR processes can...
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Scaling payroll across multiple countries is where most businesses hit their hardest HR and finance problems. What worked in one jurisdiction breaks in the second, and by the fourth or fifth country, every manual workaround has compounded...
Read more →In March 2024, Deel acquired PaySpace in what was, at the time, the largest acquisition in Deel's history. The move was significant for two reasons. First, it was one of the rare cases where a young Employer of Record (EOR) company bought...
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Payroll demands accuracy, efficiency, and compliance, and the cost of getting it wrong, in late payments, legislative missteps, or tax errors, is steep for both morale and the balance sheet. The traditional, manual approach ties up skilled...
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The Democratic Republic of Congo's payroll landscape is shifting significantly. Law No. 23/053 of 30 November 2023, published in the Official Gazette, takes effect on 1 January 2026 — replacing the previous schedular tax system with a...
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The annual EMP501 reconciliation is the most significant statutory submission in the South African payroll calendar. It reconciles every monthly EMP201 declaration submitted across the tax year against the year-to-date IRP5 totals for...
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Burkina Faso introduced a new mandatory employee tax effective from 1 January 2024 as part of the country's broader fiscal reform programme. For payroll teams running Burkinabé payroll, the change required system updates to ensure the new...
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Load shedding reshaped how South African businesses think about operational continuity. When the power goes out for two, four, or six hours at a time, every business function depending on local infrastructure grinds to a halt. Payroll...
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The Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT), in consultation with the National Pensions Regulatory Authority (NPRA), increased the maximum and minimum insurable earnings for 2024. Here are the figures employers needed to...
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Following the Finance Act 2023, the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (ZIMRA) released new tax tables, effective 1 January 2024. The USD tax tables were unchanged. Here are the revised ZWD thresholds and rates. The 2024 ZWD annual tax tables....
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The National Pension Scheme Authority (NAPSA) reviews its contribution ceiling annually in line with National Average Earnings, under section 35 of the National Pension Scheme Act No. 40 of 1996. Here are the revised figures. The new...
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Zambia's 2024 Budget Address was delivered to the National Assembly on Friday, 29 September 2023. Among the proposals was genuine PAYE relief for Zambian workers: a higher tax-free threshold and a marginally lower top marginal rate. The...
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Togo is implementing Universal Health Insurance (l’Assurance Maladie Universelle, AMU), enshrined by Law No. 2021-022, to ensure all residents have access to health care. For employers, the compulsory scheme brings new payroll...
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Ivory Coast's Presidency published Ordonnance No. 2023-179 on 13 September 2023, reforming the taxes payable by employees on salary, wages, pensions, and life annuities. The reform took effect on 1 January 2024. For payroll teams, the most...
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Eswatini's social security framework, administered through the Eswatini National Provident Fund (ENPF), increased its contribution rate effective January 2024. For employers running Eswatini payroll, the change required system updates to...
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Madagascar’s Ministry of Labour published Decree No. 2023-563, fixing the minimum wages by professional category and the minimum monthly remuneration. The change affects the floor and ceiling used for several statutory contributions. Here...
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Mauritius adjusted the minimum and maximum basic wage on which National Savings Fund contributions are payable. Here is what employers need to apply. Article body The Mauritius Revenue Authority adjusted the minimum and maximum basic wage...
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Zanzibar's social security regime — administered by the Zanzibar Social Security Fund (ZSSF) — adjusted the employer contribution rate effective January 2023. The change reshaped the cost calculation for employers running Zanzibar payroll,...
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If you employ staff in South Africa, you are required to submit an EMP501 reconciliation, and it is important to get it right and not miss the deadline. This guide covers when the EMP501 is due, what it reconciles, and the details you must...
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Tax season puts pressure on individuals and businesses alike, and the last thing anyone wants is to miscalculate and underpay SARS, which can set off a chain of queries, investigations, and penalties. A tax calculator takes much of the...
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In the 2023 Budget Speech, the Minister of Finance, Enoch Godongwana, outlined the government’s fiscal priorities and the tax measures affecting payroll for the 2023/2024 tax year. Below is a summary of the changes that applied. The key...
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The eSwatini National Provident Fund increased the ceiling of wages used to calculate statutory contributions. Here are the figures employers need to apply. The new ceiling. The wage ceiling for ENPF contributions increased from E3,300.00...
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Payroll generates a huge volume of data. Reports turn that data into something a CFO, HR director, or compliance officer can actually use. The best payroll teams are fluent in three categories of report: statutory (what the law requires),...
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Deel Local Payroll started as PaySpace in a Johannesburg garage in 2002. Four founders came from a background in international payroll software and saw the same thing from inside the industry: the products were built on decades-old...
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The Rwanda Revenue Authority announced a new law establishing taxes on income (No. 027/2022 of 20/10/2022) published in the Official Gazette (Special) of 28/10/2022. Under Article 56, the new withholding tax brackets on employment income...
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Ghana's three-tier pension structure trips up even experienced payroll teams. Between the 35,000.00 monthly cap, the allowable deduction percentages, and the various ways excess contributions can route between tiers, there are plenty of...
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Small business tax in South Africa feels like a burden, but SARS does offer relief for those that qualify. If your company meets the small business corporation (SBC) criteria, it may pay tax at lower rates than a standard company. Here is...
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Payroll software in Namibia is widely available and still under-used. Run by hand, payroll is slow, detail-heavy, and unforgiving: an inaccurate or late submission can cost a business real money in penalties and interest. Namibia adds its...
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Running payroll in South Africa means handling three statutory withholdings, two annual submissions, and a calendar of legislative changes that updates after every February budget speech. The framework is well-defined — but the details...
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Botswana runs a territorial tax system and has no national social security scheme. For payroll teams new to the country, those two facts shape almost every decision about how income is taxed and what contributions are required. Here's what...
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Every payroll provider claims their software is reliable, accurate, and compliant. In practice, most of them are. So why do customers still switch? Because when something breaks (a tax calculation goes wrong, a submission fails, an...
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The Finance (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2022 came into force on 2 August 2022, implementing measures from the 2022–2023 budget, deemed to apply from the income year beginning 1 July 2022. Here are the changes that affected payroll. ...
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Payroll system software is the platform that calculates employee pay, applies statutory deductions, generates payslips and tax certificates, and produces the submissions required by tax authorities. It sits at the intersection of HR...
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Under the Bank of Sierra Leone Act 2019, the Bank of Sierra Leone introduced new notes and coins, the New Leone, redenominating the currency by removing three zeros. The New Leone became legal tender on 1 July 2022. Here is what it meant...
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White-label HR and payroll software lets you deliver payroll services to your clients, or employees, under your own brand, without building the underlying technology from scratch. For accountants, bookkeepers, HR consultants, and...
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Payroll is time-consuming, detail-heavy, and, with a large headcount, easy to get wrong, especially once it becomes repetitive enough that attention slips. That is where payroll software earns its place, removing the human element from the...
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A payroll administrator is the person who makes sure every employee in a business gets paid the right amount on the right day, with the right deductions, every cycle. It sounds simple. The reality involves tax law, employment contracts,...
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Payroll is a craft as much as a role. The software changes, the legislation changes, the reporting formats change. A payroll administrator who stops learning falls behind within a year. Online training is the most efficient way to close...
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The Institution de Prevoyance Retraite du Senegal (IPRES) increased the monthly ceiling on which IPRES pension contributions are based, for both the Regime General and the Regime des Cadres. Here are the figures employers need to apply. ...
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The Minister of Finance presented Lesotho’s budget on 2 March 2022, with the changes gazetted on 8 April 2022. Under the Income Tax (Monetary Amounts) (Amendment) Regulations 2022, the tax credit and minimum taxable income were revised,...
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However you approach it, payroll is complicated, and the repetitive parts are where mistakes creep in. Automating payslips brings more accuracy, saves money, and lifts a time-consuming task off your team. Here is what a payslip is, and how...
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In a digital world, it is surprising how many businesses still run payroll on manual processes, juggling spreadsheets and re-checking figures by hand. Online payroll software offers a set of benefits that are hard to overlook. If you are...
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Payroll is a time-consuming, detailed, and often stressful task, and a single mistake is easy to make. You have to get the calculations right and make the correct payments, because errors hurt compliance, unsettle employees, and slow the...
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Every organisation wants to do well and keep its best people. The ones that manage it tend to share two traits: a culture employees genuinely live by, and a strong customer focus. Culture is not a poster on the wall. It shows up in values,...
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Innovation tends to arrive in waves. The economist Joseph Schumpeter called it “creative destruction” back in 1942: old models give way to better ones. Artificial intelligence is the current wave, and it has disrupted industry after...
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The events industry has transformed. Five years ago, a payroll conference meant flights, hotels, and a printed lanyard. Today, most professional events run a hybrid model: in-person for those who can attend, virtual for those who can't....
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Tax paperwork is a heavy responsibility for companies of every size, and meeting SARS deadlines is one of the most important parts of it. Every six months, South African employers submit their interim reconciliation, covering IRP5 or...
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The interim PAYE employer reconciliation comes around every year, and it has a reputation for being laborious and time-consuming. In practice, it is straightforward when your data is in order and your payroll does the heavy lifting. Here...
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Payroll looks simple on the surface. Calculate what people are owed, pay them on time, file the right returns. The reality involves tax law, statutory contributions, retirement schemes, medical aids, leave accruals, and a payroll cycle...
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Africa is the world’s second-largest and second-most-populous continent, with 54 countries and a wealth of languages, cultures, and legal systems. Technology and innovation are unlocking its economic potential, opening new markets for...
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A multi-skilled workforce is more adaptable and more resilient when ways of working change, and the events of recent years made that plainer than ever. Building one is not about sending everyone on the same generic course; it is about...
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Botswana's tax year runs from 1 July to 30 June, so the 2025/2026 tax tables came into effect on 1 July 2025. The most significant change is the top marginal rate increasing from 25% to 26.5%. The personal allowance (BWP 48,000 per year)...
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Zimbabwe's National Social Security Authority (NSSA) shifted to a USD-based insurable earnings ceiling of USD 700 monthly in 2024 — a significant change from the previous ZWL-pegged structure that required quarterly recalculation against...
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The cloud computing market keeps expanding for a simple reason: it works. Adopting cloud frees up IT budgets, delivers projects faster, and removes the capital outlay of owning infrastructure. For payroll and HR specifically, moving to the...
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The shift to remote working happened quickly for organisations everywhere, and while the move went reasonably well, it surfaced challenges that are easy to underestimate. Rolling out remote working across a whole organisation is more...
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For businesses running payroll in multiple African countries, tax year alignment is a surprisingly complicated problem. South Africa runs March-to-February. Kenya, Nigeria, and Ghana run January-to-December. Rwanda, Tanzania, and others...
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The benefits of the cloud are well documented: accessible anywhere, flexible, no hardware to maintain, no manual backups to keep on top of, no paper-based processes, and no large upfront capital outlay. Combine the cloud with outsourcing...
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Cloud adoption has gone mainstream, with research showing around 94% of organisations have some kind of cloud strategy. But a lot of what's sold as cloud is actually legacy software repackaged with a web interface. The difference between...
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The Employment Tax Incentive (ETI) is one of the most underused tools in South African payroll. Implemented on 1 January 2014, it was designed to encourage employers to hire young job seekers, a group hit hardest by structural...
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When COVID-19 hit South Africa in 2020, the job market for payroll and HR professionals changed overnight. Companies froze hiring, retrenchments climbed, and skilled people found themselves out of work through no fault of their own. In...
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The Protection of Personal Information Act (POPIA) took full effect in South Africa on 1 July 2021, after more than a year of grace period for organisations to get their house in order. Payroll and HR sit at the heart of POPIA compliance...
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Running payroll in one African country is one set of skills. Running it across 10 is another. The legislative rules, contribution ceilings, reporting formats, and statutory submissions vary in every jurisdiction — and the payroll...
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The businesses that came through recent crises best had one thing in common: they were prepared. They had made the investment in cloud infrastructure, remote-capable systems, and flexible operating models before they needed them. Payroll...
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Payroll data is some of the most sensitive information your business holds. Bank details, salaries, ID numbers, medical aid dependents, retirement nominations: all of it sits in the same file. Most providers will say your data is safe....
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Cloud payroll is talked about everywhere, but the term covers very different things, and the difference matters for compliance, security, and cost. This piece explains what true cloud payroll actually is. What “true cloud” means. True...
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A security breach damages a company’s reputation and carries real financial cost. Payroll is a prime target, because it holds precisely the personal and banking information attackers can monetise or use to impersonate people. As...
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Digital connectivity is changing how African companies and governments do business, and digital tax returns are becoming more common as more countries bring financial services online. South Africa, Zambia, Botswana, and Kenya were early...
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Managing employee leave is one of those tasks that quietly eats into the working week. Requests arrive constantly, someone has to check that teams are not all off on the same days, and the dates have to be recorded accurately in the...
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There are good reasons to outsource payroll. A single global solution lets you manage payroll across multiple locations through one contract instead of juggling a provider in every country, which cuts the administrative load sharply. It...
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Tax season puts pressure on employers and payroll managers, and how you have calculated payroll taxes through the year determines whether employees hit problems when they file. With refund delays and changing tax codes in the mix, accuracy...
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Running payroll across Africa is full of opportunity, but each country has its own tax rules, thresholds, and tax year, and a misread regulation or a missed change can mean penalties. Keeping all of that straight from a single generic...
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Moving payroll and HR to the cloud isn't a technology project. It's an operating model change. Done well, it automates time-consuming tasks, reduces administrative load, and gives employees self-service access they've wanted for years....
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Companies expanding into Africa usually arrive with good intentions, including following the law precisely. That is harder than it sounds. Payroll compliance across the continent is complex and easily misunderstood, and non-compliance...
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Payroll administration does not have to be a nightmare, but the larger the organisation, the heavier it gets, with local legislation, regulatory requirements, and employees across time zones all to manage. If administration is crowding out...
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South African tax year-end falls on the last day of February. The weeks before are when good payroll teams pull ahead and avoidable mistakes get baked in. This checklist covers what to verify, what to reconcile, and the deadlines that...
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December is when leave management either looks like strategic workforce planning or like a mess. Everyone wants the festive break off. Some clients still need cover. Statutory rules don't pause. And the questions HR gets in mid-November —...
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