The 2025 Budget Speech brings a host of legislative updates that will directly impact payroll management, tax compliance, and HR operations. Join our FREE webinar as we break down the key changes, hidden insights, and practical steps to prepare your business for the year ahead.

Date: 2 April 2025
Time: 09:00 AM – 12:30 PM
Location: Online/Virtual

Agenda

09H00-10H30 | The 2025 Budget Speech: Hidden Payroll Insights Unveiled

An honest take on the 2025 Budget Speech and all it’s envisaged legislative changes that will impact day to day payroll management.

Interesting budget insights that will impact your employees in the short and medium term.

Practical examples of how the 2025 Budget Speech could potentially impact payroll related business processes.

Considerations to ensure you get your Payroll & HR Systems ready for the 2025 year.

The latest official tax statistics. Some really interesting changes and trends. 

10H30-11H00 | Comfort Break and Coffee            

11H00-11H45 | Other SARS Changes in the past year

The Budget Speech and it’s build up as it pertains to SARS related activities normally has a deeper impact on businesses than first meets the eye – considerations include:

• A quick recap of statutory amendments and rate changes leading up to March 2025.
• Tax Laws Amendment Bills (TLAB) 2023 and 2024 – What’s changed that you may have missed and what is likely to come into effect during 2025.
• Interpretation Notices: What’s new and what has again reared it’s head from previous Interpretation Notices.
• SARS BRS 2025:
  • Preparing for employer filing season and submissions.
  • Detailed tax certificate changes and updates.
• What to look out for when using SARS e@syFile and eFiling – recent updates and challenges.
• An update on the SARS PIT2024 project (i.e. monthly submission of returns and information) – progress to date and envisaged next steps.
• Some recent challenges with AA88’s and how to get around them.
• Employees with two Tax Reference Numbers – how SARS intends to resolve this headache.
• Taxation of refunds to employers – (sign-on bonuses, commissions, etc).

11H45-12H30 | Other Legislative & Payroll-Related Changes

With so many rules and an everchanging legislative landscape governing payroll compliance in South Africa, it’s important to stay current with all the other key changes implemented during this tax year:

• UIF: u-Filing status, an update on Compliance Certificates, and the submission of a manual UI-19 Form – the nightmare continues.
• COIDA: General update, COIDA audits and revised levies, and changes to the Return of Earnings (ROE).
• BCEA and National Minimum Wage: What’s new?
• ETI: New measures implemented to alleviate potential for fraudulent claims.
• Monthly Submission: Why has this gone quiet?
• 2 Pot Retirement: How’s it going?
• Latest updates.
• Employment Equity: Changes effective from Jan 2025. A reminder of what these are, and what’s in the pipeline regarding Sector based targets.

12.30 | Webinar ends 

About the presenter

Rob Nowicki

Rob Nowicki has been involved in the design, development and management of Payroll, HR and Personal Tax technologies for well over forty years, both locally and internationally. He was a founder of one of the first PC based Payroll / HR applications in South Africa, which was ultimately merged into the then QData Group, one of the leading ICT and a Top 100 Company in the 90’s.

This merger was the catalyst for the consolidation of the two leading systems at the time, namely the Qpac Payroll System and the Profile HR Management System into a new product, known as UNIQUE. UNIQUE became one of the most widely used applications of its kind in South Africa and enjoyed a very successful life of well over 30 years.  

With the advent of the internet in the late 90’s Rob and his team pioneered the concept of cloud- based Payroll, HR and tax services in South Africa, with the ground up, innovative development and successful launch of PSIberWORKS (Now known as Labournet Payroll). Labournet Payroll was the first system of its kind available to the South African market, the service still being widely used across a vast number of companies of all sizes and in all industries.  

During the early years of Labournet Payroll, an ancillary service called MyTax was launched which assisted taxpayers in effortlessly completing their tax returns and facilitating tax payments to SARS. This application later merged with Tax Break and through a Private, Public Partnership (PPT) with the South African Revenue Service, the hugely popular SARS e-filing service was birthed, which today services many millions of individuals as well as corporate taxpayers.

Today Rob serves as a Manco member of the Payroll Authors Group of South Africa, a non-profit organisation founded nearly 30 years ago, that engages with SARS and other government departments on legislative matters which impact employees and employers and interprets how such legislation will impact payroll systems in general.  

Rob’s extensive knowledge of employee / employer related payroll and tax matters, both from a technology as well as a legislative perspective, coupled with his ability to convey these often-complicated subjects, in a relaxed and easy to understand manner, has made him a popular speaker at a variety of seminars and conferences.

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