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Week One or Cumulative Basis

CUMULATIVE BASIS

The purpose of the PAYE system is to ensure that an employee’s tax liability is spread out evenly over the year, thus allowing the correct tax liability to be paid in full without causing hardship to the employee.

To ensure that this is achieved, PAYE & USC are normally calculated on a Cumulative Basis. This means when employers calculate the tax liability of an employee, they actually calculate the total tax due from the 1st January to the date on which the payment is being made. The PAYE tax and USC deducted in a particular week is the cumulative amount due from the 1st January to that date, reduced by the amount previously deducted to date.

Any tax credits and/or standard rate cut off point and/or USC cut off point, which are not used in a pay period, can be carried forward to the next period within the tax year. The cumulative basis also ensures that refunds can be made to an employee where the employee’s tax credits and cut off points have been increased.

Cumulative Example - Screen 1

Cumulative Calc - Screen 2

WEEK 1 BASIS

If the week/month 1 basis applies, neither pay, tax credits, nor the standard rate cut off point nor USC cut off points are accumulated for tax and USC purposes. The pay for each week or month is dealt with separately. The tax credits, standard rate cut off point and USC cut off points for week/month 1 are used each week/month in the calculation of tax and USC due.

PAYE & USC Refunds will not be triggered under a Week 1 / Month 1 basis, as refunds only occur in a cumulative basis.

Week 1 basis - Screen 1

Week 1 basis - Screen 2

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Installing BrightPay

Installing the software on to your PC Setting Up BrightPay for Multiple Users

Ordering for Next Year Payroll Calendar

Getting Started

Introduction to BrightPay Setting up an employer and its employees using a Revenue P2C File

Importing from Previous Year

Importing from BrightPay 2014 Importing from Thesaurus Payroll Manager

Switching from Thesaurus Payroll Manager to BrightPay mid year Importing employee data from another payroll package

Employee Data that can be Imported into BrightPay Migrating from SAGE Micropay to BrightPay

Adding a New Company Additional Employer Information Setup Initial Rates of pay Adding/ Amending Hourly Rates Adding/ Amending Daily Rates Adding/ Amending Addition Types Adding/ Amending Deduction Types Adding/ Amending Pension Schemes Adding/ Amending Savings Schemes Adding/ Amending Bank Accounts Adding/ Amending Departments

Exporting a P2C file from ROS Importing a P2C file Personal Employment Payment Revenue Details HR CSO

Payroll Deductions

Universal Social Charge Universal Social Charge - Calculations USC Exempt Status v USC Exempt Income PAYE - Pay As You Earn Week One or Cumulative Basis Emergency Tax Basis Local Property Tax (LPT)PRSI PRSI - 2015 Tables

Processing Weekly Payroll Processing Fortnightly Payroll Processing Monthly Payroll Processing 4-Weekly Payroll Net to Gross Payments Entering Pension Deductions Allocating An Employee's Pay across Departments Importing Pay Data from a CSV File Finalising Payslips Printing Payslips Emailing Payslips Exporting Payslips Paying Employees

Mid-year Starters

Preparing a P45 Part 3 for ROS Preparing a P46 for ROS Setting up a new employee mid-year

Issuing a P45 Printing a P45 Reversing a P45 Submitting a P45 to ROS

Adding/ Amending Pension Schemes CWPS & NECI Reports Entering a CWPS Pension Entering a NECI Pension Entering Normal Pension Deductions Normal Pensions Report

Illness Benefit

Employer does not pay employee while out sick Employer pays employee while out sick and receives the illness benefit Employer pays employee while out sick but employee retains the illness benefit Illness Benefit - General Making adjustments to previously paid illness benefit

Benefit in Kind

Vehicles Loans Accommodation Medical Insurance - Annual Medical Insurance - One-Off Share Based Remuneration Annual Benefits One-Off Benefits

Parenting Leave

Adoptive Leave & Pay Maternity Leave & Pay

Processing Holiday Pay

Re-opening Payslips

Re-defining Schedule of Periods Re-opening Payslips

Monthly P30 Return P30 ROS File Quarterly P30 Return

Audit Trail Report Creating a New Report CWPS & NECI Reports Daily Pay Report DSP Benefits Report Favourite Reports Hourly Pay Report Notional Pay Report Payroll Summary Report Pensions Report

Backing Up & Restoring Data Files

Backing Up Your Payroll Data Restoring a Payroll Data File

Preparing a P35 ROS File Submitting a P35 to ROS P60s Medical Insurance Eligible for Tax Relief

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