09H00-09H10              Welcome & Housekeeping

Welcoming, agenda, introduction of speakers and housekeeping for the duration of the day.    

09H10-10H00             The inside scoop – 2025 Budget Speech (Diane Seccombe)

An honest take on the 2025 Budget Speech and all it’s envisaged legislative changes.

Look forward to some raw commentary on what wasn’t necessarily so apparent and discover the potential challenges facing the payroll profession and the impact on businesses in 2025. 

10H00-10H30              Module 1 – The 2025 Budget Speech: Hidden Payroll Insights Unveiled

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

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.

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

10H30-11H00              Comfort Break | Coffee                                          

11H00-11H45              Module 2 – Other SARS Changes in the past year

The Budget Speech and its 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 all 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.
• Feedback on the latest changes to the Auto-Assessment tax filing process – how it impacts your employees and common questions and issues around this process.
• 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             Module 3 – Other Legislative & Payroll-Related Changes

With so many rules and an everchanging legislative landscape governing payroll compliance in South Africa, we will look at all the other key changes implemented during this tax year:

• UIF. uFiling ststus, 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.
• Latest updates.
• Employment Equity. Changes effective from Jan 2025. A reminder of what these are, what’s in the pipeline, and the ongoing plan to cater for gender classification in a more gender-diverse world?

12H30-13H00              Interactive Q and A session

13H00                           Thanks and Closing