Your payroll may be processing salaries and benefits every month without necessarily being tax compliant, optimally structured or aligned with your current remuneration strategy.
Wage types, allowances and fringe benefits can change over time as legislation, SARS interpretation, company policies, employee benefits and remuneration practices evolve. Structures that were appropriate when implemented may no longer be the most tax-efficient, practical or administratively effective solution.
Our health check is designed to provide a practical view of your current remuneration and payroll environment, including:
We assess key payroll wage types to determine whether remuneration is being treated and taxed correctly.
This may include reviewing:
The objective is to identify instances where wage types may be incorrectly taxed, inconsistently applied, outdated or not aligned with the underlying remuneration arrangement.
We assess whether your current remuneration methodology remains appropriate for your organisation and employees.
This includes considering whether a Basic Plus or Cost to Company (CTC) approach is appropriate and whether your existing structure provides sufficient flexibility to accommodate different employee requirements.
We consider opportunities to:
A health check can identify whether your existing benefits could be structured more effectively through a flexible benefits approach.
Rather than simply reviewing whether benefits are currently provided, we consider whether the remuneration structure gives employees appropriate flexibility to select benefits within the employer's defined parameters.
This can assist with creating a remuneration structure that is:
Compliant | Flexible | Transparent | Tax-aware | Administratively practical
We assess areas where the current payroll framework may create potential tax or compliance exposure.
This may include identifying:
The objective is not simply to identify problems, but to provide practical recommendations to address them.
A payroll health check should not end with a list of compliance issues.
Where opportunities are identified, we can assist your organisation in considering how the remuneration structure itself could be improved.
Depending on the outcome of the review, this may include:
Reviewing and redesigning remuneration structures to better align employer cost, employee value, tax treatment and payroll administration.
Designing a flexible benefits framework that provides employees with greater choice while maintaining appropriate employer controls and compliance.
Reviewing CTC structures and determining how remuneration components and benefits can be structured within the total employer cost.
Assessing whether your existing methodology remains appropriate and whether an alternative approach may provide greater transparency, flexibility or administrative efficiency.
Where appropriate, we can design and implement a Package Structuring Tool to support HR and payroll teams in applying the remuneration framework consistently.
Once a remuneration structure has been reviewed or redesigned, the next challenge is often how to administer it consistently and efficiently.
Our Package Structuring Tool can provide a practical mechanism for HR, payroll and employees to structure remuneration within the organisation's defined parameters.
Depending on the requirements, the tool can support:
This helps move the organisation from a remuneration policy on paper to a practical, controlled and repeatable payroll process.
Many organisations only review their payroll after something has gone wrong. A health check provides an opportunity to take a proactive approach.
It can help you:
Ask us to conduct a Payroll & Remuneration Health Check if you:
Our remuneration specialists combine expertise across payroll tax, remuneration structuring, employee benefits and tax compliance.
Our team has extensive experience in payroll tax, SARS voluntary disclosure submissions, remuneration structuring, tax efficiency, and compliance considerations.
We understand that a remuneration structure must work in practice — not only from a tax perspective, but also from an employer cost, employee value, payroll administration and governance perspective.
We assist organisations with practical, tax compliant focused guidance that considers both employer requirements and employee outcomes.
Our approach is designed to help businesses move from uncertainty to informed decision-making.
Before changing your remuneration structure, implementing new benefits or assuming that your payroll is compliant, let our specialists assess where you stand.
Identify the risks. Validate the tax treatment. Optimise the structure. Build the right payroll solution.