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Employer Deadlines: October to December 2026
⚡ Quick answer Q4’s employer deadlines: 1 October closes manual EE reporting, 31 October closes the EMP501 interim season, the monthly EMP201 runs through, and December demands an early payroll plus public-holiday pay planning. The quarter ends with the 7 January EMP201 already looming. The last quarter compresses the year’s hardest scheduling into twelve weeks. The employer deadlines from October to December combine a genuine filing deadline (31 October), the trickiest payroll month of the year, and a January obligation that must be prepared before everyone goes on leave. Employers who plan Q4 in October enjoy December; the rest spend it on hold with SARS. Here is the quarter. Employer…
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Employer Deadlines: July to September 2026
⚡ Quick answer Q3’s employer deadlines: EMP201 by the 7th each month, second provisional tax for February year-ends at the end of August, the EMP501 interim season opening in September, and 1 September as the anchor date of the EE plan cycle. Women’s Day falls on a Sunday this year — Monday 10 August is the holiday. Q3 looks quiet on paper, and that is precisely its danger: the employer deadlines from July to September are fewer but structural — provisional tax, the opening of the EMP501 interim season, and the September anchor of the EE plan cycle. Employers who use these months well arrive at the October–January deadline storm…
