The operational phase of the COVID-19 Temporary Wage Subsidy Scheme began on the May 4th.The main differences between Transition and Operational phases are. Revenue have issued a CSV file containing the subsidy details for all employees currently employed by the company on the 1st of May 2020. These details were previously determined by the employer. Revenue will refund the exact … Read More
As ever, new items to report and clarifications to be made.Revenue have published Version 3 of their Temporary COVID-19 Wage Subsidy Scheme document. You can find that in the Hot Topics section of the Revenue website. It is worth reading, particularly for accountants and payroll advisers.Key clarifications in Version 3 and from our meeting with Revenue today are: For March … Read More
The Bill passed Seanad Éireann. Revenue and Department of Finance have revised and published Version 2 of their guide Operation of Temporary COVID-19 Wage Subsidy Scheme.The new version rolls back some aspects and clarifies previous issues with the scheme.Key clarifications in Version 2 are: All employees on payroll are eligible for the Wage Subsidy Scheme. Including proprietary directors, those outside … Read More
We have updated our system to facilitate both Pandemic Unemployment Payments and Temporary Wage Subsidy Scheme. Select the desired support scheme from the wizard drop down menu in the navigation bar. COVID-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment Details are at: https://www.gov.ie/en/service/be74d3-covid-19-pandemic-unemployment-payment/ Note that employees can apply directly for the scheme online here. Choosing this will create a reimbursement in the selected employees … Read More
Firstly, please let me know if you want to be removed from these emails. While Covid-19 affects as all, some companies may not need to take thesupports at the moment. Most of you will have seen the press releases around Covid-19 Temporary Wage Subsidy Scheme announced yesterday evening. As part of the Payroll Software Developers Association we have been in … Read More
Well, things have changed quickly. This post updates information provided last week, here: As of Friday 20th March, 9pm Government announced that the initial Refund Scheme of €203 euro was only an interim measure and that an enhanced scheme was to follow. We have had some guidance from Revenue this evening of the following: Employer funded Top-ups to the COVID-19 … Read More
For a many companies these are exceptionally challenging times. There have been several announcements from both the Department of Finance (Revenue) and also the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection (DEASP) in the past 48 hours and below we outline what options are now available. Business as usual – employees to be paid as normal and payroll information submitted … Read More
The minimum wage will increase on the 1st of February 2020 from €9.80 to €10.10. There will also be a corresponding increase in the Class A employers PRSI threshold.
Xero bank feeds are temporarily out of action until Brexit gets resolved, so we have created our own Xero Bank Statement Converters. See Xero community page. In the meantime, you can still upload statement manually via CSV files. This week we have released two new bank statement converters on our Parolla Tools website, to assist Xero users in the ROI. … Read More
The system is experiencing an error at our hosted servers today Friday, 20th September. The problem has taken down a block of servers. We are working to move over to our disaster recovery site at the moment. My apologies for the inconvenience. System restored 3pm Friday 20th September. We have moved hosting providers.
Service has been restored to the backup database as of 2 pm, Monday 2nd September. Thank you for your patience.
We are experiencing a database failure on one of our servers in Dublin. We are in the process of moving over to a backup database. The backup will be restored from Monday 2nd September 10:37 am. Email m.ogilvie@parolla.ie and we will contact you when the system is available. Our apologies for your inconvenience.
Employee net pay arrangements are where the employer has agreed to pay the employee an amount of money in-hand, after taxes have been deducted. This arrangement is generally discouraged by Revenue, and most business advisors, but is not prohibited. The arrangement is most often found in the construction sector, or where an employee might be paid in cash. The main … Read More
We’ve updated the Personal Mileage Expenses form following user feedback. New features added: We pre-populate the journey form with the details of the employees last approved vehicle, destinations and distance. You can enter multiple journeys in the one claim form. You can copy individual journeys within the same claim form. If you’re an administrator you can submit the journey immediately … Read More
The Revenue Payroll Notification is where Revenue publish the tax details for an employee. This blog posts covers some of the changes in this revenue payroll notification update. The RPN’s used to be called a P2C files, or employee tax certificates. They are possibly the most important piece of information that we download from Revenue. Each Employment of an individual … Read More
We have added custom Xero account mapping rules rules to the Xero/Parolla account synchronisation process. The new rules allow you to post to specific Xero accounts based on the details of an individual employee. Rules can be created for departments, regions, or individual employees. If no rules are present, or if an employee doesn’t apply to any of the rules, … Read More
The updated new employee wizard has been reintroduced to streamline workflow. Some of the changes include: The very first step of the wizard creates or imports Revenue RPN details. A new auto numbering system can generate the next available employee payroll/works number. The number of mandatory fields have been reduced There is an early finish button is available once the … Read More
We’ve moved app.parolla.ie to our disaster recovery site. The domain name is updating at the moment to point to the DR servers. You can access them directly at http://217.78.6.11/login. If you can, please wait until the site is back online. Contact us on chat and we will send you an email when the issue is resolved. Thank you.
Our server host is having an issue with the Hypervisor running our Load Balancer. The https://app.parolla.ie site is unavailable. We apologise for the inconvenience. If you would like to receive an email when service is restored, please leave a note in the chat system. We also have an offline version of the site, backed up at 3am this morning. We … Read More
Under the new PAYE Modernisation system in 2019 it is now much simpler for people when switching payroll systems during the year. That is because each month is treated as its own mini end of year return. The pay run submissions now contain all the information required. Previously, the full picture was only given to Revenue in the end of … Read More
Did you know that Revenue have a web page devoted to keeping you updated on common 2019 PAYE modernisation issues called Revenue Hot Topics? Search for the page here At the moment it covers issues such as: Duplicate Employments, reasons they may have been created and how to clean them up. Reasons why users may experience difficulties accessing ROS Reasons … Read More
PAYE Modernisation arrived with great anticipation on the 1st January 2019. It’s been a busy month but an exciting one for us here at Parolla. As with any new system which effects so many people it has not been without its challenges. However, issues have been limited and considering the enormity of the project the Revenue should be commended for … Read More
