Hello,
Season’s Greetings to all our users 🎄
In preparation for the last pay run of 2025 and the first of 2026, here are the key payroll updates to help keep everything running smoothly.
📘 Auto-Enrolment – MyFutureFund (MFF)
Employers have until the 31st December to log onto their MyFutureFund Employer Portal and set up their direct debit mandate.
Enrolled employees will appear on the AEPN, (Auto-Enrolment Payroll Notification), which can be viewed in the portal. Click here for our detailed guide.
You can also view your AEPN directly in Parolla by navigating to:
Benefits & Deductions → Pensions → MyFutureFund Members → AEPN
From this screen, you can send the mandatory notifications to employees about their enrolment status.
🪙How Contributions Will Work in Parolla
- From 1st January, MyFutureFund employee and employer contributions will be automatically added to all enrolled employees’ payslips.
- Once a payrun is submitted to Revenue and accepted, Parolla will automatically send contribution details to NAERSA.
- After 6:30pm on the payrun’s payment date, NAERSA will collect the pension contributions from the employer’s bank account via direct debit.
🎁 Small Benefit Gifting Rules for 2025
From January 2025 employees are permitted up to 5 tax free benefits, not exceeding a total of €1500 in the year. These benefits must be reported to Revenue as per ERR regulations introduced in 2024.
🎄 Early Processing & Bank Holiday Payment Dates
Feel free to process and submit to Revenue in advance, and schedule bank payments for future dates to ease your workload.
In Parolla, you can also schedule payrun processing, Revenue submissions, and employee emails ahead of time.
If your scheduled payment date falls on a bank holiday, you are permitted to make the payment on the nearest bank working day before the public holiday.
For example, for weekly Thursday payrolls, you should keep the payment date unchanged (e.g. 25 Dec and 1 Jan 2026), and submit those dates to Revenue but you can make the payment to employees on the 24th and 31st. Please refer to your bank’s payment information pages for payment date cut off times AIB Bank of Ireland PTSB.
📅 Week 53 Payments
For 2025, Week 53 falls on Wednesday 31 December.
Week 53 affects only weekly payrolls that are normally paid on a Wednesday.
Revenue tracks your usual payment pattern — so keep to your normal pay day to avoid queries.
📤✨ 2026 RPNs & Payroll Calendars
The 2026 RPNs are now available in Parolla and all 2026 calendars have been created.
✅ End-of-Year Revenue Reconciliation
As outlined in our November Newsletter, we recommend using the Parolla Revenue Review Year page to identify any year-end discrepancies before closing the year.
Revenue will be sending employee statements at the end of January 2026 and process any refunds based on employer submissions made during 2025.
📬 Coming Soon – New Year Newsletter
Our New Year Newsletter will be out in the first working days of 2026 and will include:
- Any Further relevant updates on Pension Auto-Enrolment.
- Minimum wage increase details
- Employment Detail Summary for employees
- 2026 Company Vehicles updates
- Unused leave
As always, if you have any questions, please send us a message via the chat box — we’re always happy to help.
We’d like to take this opportunity to thank all our users for their continued support and to wish you a peaceful and relaxing Christmas.
Mark & Claire