EA Form - Payroll Web Platform

Overview

The IRB - CP8A EA form is a Yearly Remuneration Statement that includes your salary for the relevant basis year and is used for the filing of personal taxes to the Inland Revenue Board (IRB).

Availability

Payroll Plan:   Standard   Premium

Getting started

The below premise will walk you through how to generate the EA form.

Generate the EA Form
  1. Log into your Employment Hero Payroll platform.
  2. Click the  Report menu.
  3. Navigate to Statutory reporting section
  4. Click the IRB - CP8A EA form link.MY_Reporting_ea_form.jpg
  5. Choose from the following filters:
    • Tax year
    • Pay Schedule
    • Employing Entity
    • Employee Default Location
    • Employee
  6. Click the Search button.
    ea_form_search.jpg
  7. Helpful Hint

    The report is only generated for employees who had earnings during the relevant basis period.

    The on screen report contains the following data when Search button is clicked on:

    • Employee Name
    • ITN/TRN
    • IC No/Passport No
    • Pay Period
    • B - Gross Income
    • C - Pension & Others
    • D - Total Deductions
    • E - Contributions
    • F - Total Allowances ea_form_results_1.jpg
    1. When you have the right employees selected, click Actions.
    2. Select Generate EA Formsea_form_generate.jpg

Maintain

The below premise will walk you through how to edit, publish and download your EA forms ready to submit.

Edit employee details
  1. Log into your Employment Hero Payroll platform.
  2. Click the  Report menu.
  3. Navigate to Statutory reporting section
  4. Click the IRB - CP8A EA form linkMY_Reporting_ea_form.jpg
  5. Choose from the following filters:
    • Tax year
    • Pay Schedule
    • Employing Entity
    • Employee Default Location
    • Employee
  6. Click the Search button. ea_form_search.jpg
  7. Helpful Hint

    The report is only generated for employees who had earnings during the relevant basis period.

    The on screen report contains the following data when 'Search' button is clicked on:

    • Employee Name
    • ITN/TRN
    • IC No/Passport No
    • Pay Period
    • B - Gross Income
    • C - Pension & Others
    • D - Total Deductions
    • E - Contributions
    • F - Total Allowances ea_form_results_1.jpg
    1. When you have the right employees selected, click Actions.
    2. Select Generate EA Formsea_form_generate.jpg
    3. You can select the Actions buttons on each employee to edit individual details or download individual forms. 
    4. You will see the options:ea_form_employee_actions.jpg
    • Edit
    • Regenerate: If the employee has been included in additional pay runs and you need to update the data within the EA form, you can use the Regenerate button to do this.
    • Download: Download the individual form for this employee as a PDF.
    • Publish: Publishing the report allows the employee to view it within the Employee Self Service portal (ESS). Additionally, they will receive a notification depending on the settings on their Employee file > Pay run defaults page. 
    1. Click Edit.
    2. You can edit data to provide additional information such as details of payment for gross tips, awards, allowances, VOLA address details, adhoc items such as refunds amounts from an unapproved provident fund. 
    3. Click Save.ea_form_edit_employee.jpg
Bulk Actions
  1. Log into your Employment Hero Payroll platform.
  2. Click the  Report menu.
  3. Navigate to Statutory reporting section
  4. Click the IRB - CP8A EA form linkMY_Reporting_ea_form.jpg
  5. Choose from the following filters:
    • Tax year
    • Pay Schedule
    • Employing Entity
    • Employee Default Location
    • Employee
  6. Click the Search button. ea_form_search.jpg
  7. Helpful Hint

    The report is only generated for employees who had earnings during the relevant basis period.

    The on screen report contains the following data when 'Search' button is clicked on:

    • Employee Name
    • ITN/TRN
    • IC No/Passport No
    • Pay Period
    • B - Gross Income
    • C - Pension & Others
    • D - Total Deductions
    • E - Contributions
    • F - Total Allowances ea_form_results_1.jpg
    1. When you have the right employees selected, click Actions.
    2. Select Generate EA Forms. ea_form_generate.jpg
    3. You can then perform bulk actions for the forms.
    4. Click the Actions button at the top of the form. You will have the options to: ea_form_bulk_actions.jpg
    • Generate EA forms: This works the same way as the 'Search' button, which will display the on screen high level report with a status column. 
    • Regenerate EA forms: If the employee has been included in additional pay runs and you need to update the data within the EA form, you can use the 'Regenerate' button to do this;
    • Publish all: Once you have 'Saved' the report, you are then able to 'Publish'. Publishing all the report allows the employee to view it within the Employee Self Service portal (ESS). Additionally, they will receive a notification depending on the settings on their Employee file > Pay run defaults page. 
    • Unpublish all: If you have 'Publish all' EA forms and now wish to 'Unpublish all'. This will return the EA back to draft state. 
    • Notify all: Where you have 'Publish all' and wish to notify all employees that the EA form is available to access. 
    • Download excel: Exports data into excel format. 
    • Download all: Allows you to download the EA report as a PDF. Each employee form wil download in one combined PDF document. 

Further Information

Details in the EA Form

The listed items here are included data on the EA Form:

  • B.1 (a) - Gross salary, wages or leave pay (incl. overtime)
  • B.1 (b) - Fees, commissions or bonuses
  • B.1 (c) - Gross tips, perquisites, awards/rewards or other allowances
  • B.1 (d) - Income tax borne by employer in respect of his employee
  • B.1 (e) - Employee Share Option Scheme (ESOS) benefit
  • B.1 (f) - Gratuity
  • B.3 - Benefits in kind
  • B.4 - Value of living accommodations 
  • B.5 - Refund from unapproved provident/ pension fund
  • B.6 - Compensation for loss of employment
  • C.1 - Pension
  • C.2 - Annuities or other periodical payments
  • D2 - CP 38 deduction
  • D3 - Zakat paid via salary deduction
  • D.4 (a) - Relief claim by employee via Form TP1
  • D.4 (b) - Zakat relief claim by employee via Form TP1
  • F - Tax exempt allowances / perquisites / gifts / benefits ea_employee_form.jpg

Important

When you apply a payment classification to a deduction category, any deductions made using the deduction category will be reported in the relevant part of the employee's EA form

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