Remittances

The amounts deducted from pay must be remitted to the relevant Jamaican authorities. Remittances pull those totals together for each period.

Remittances are for payroll administrators.

Payroll›Remittances

What gets remitted

Statutory contributions collected through payroll — PAYE, NIS, NHT, Education Tax, and HEART — are owed to the relevant authorities for each period. Soundial totals both the employee and employer portions from your approved runs.

Generating a remittance

Go to Remittances

Payroll›Remittances

Select the period

Choose the month (or pay period) you're remitting for.

Review the totals

Check the breakdown per statutory category against your approved payroll runs for that period.

Export the figures

Use the totals to file and pay with the TAJ and other authorities.

Only approved payroll runs contribute to remittance totals — process and approve your runs for the period first.

Marking a remittance as paid

Each month's liability is tracked per agency: PAYE and Education Tax to the TAJ, NIS, and NHT. When you have paid an agency, use Mark as Remitted on that card and record the reference number. Soundial keeps a per-cycle history, so you can always see which months are outstanding, overdue, or paid, and re-open a card if you recorded it by mistake.

Recording a remittance is limited to a company admin and the accountant. If you reverse a payroll run, that month's statutory liability is cleared automatically.

Third-party beneficiaries

Non-statutory deductions that must be paid out to a third party — such as a pension provider, health plan, or credit union — are tracked as third-party beneficiaries so you can reconcile what to pay each one.

Cross-check your remittance and beneficiary totals against the deductions on the same period's payroll report before paying.

Related TAJ reports

Year-end and statutory filing forms (such as annual returns) are produced from

Payroll›TAJ Reports

. Use Remittances for the periodic payments and TAJ Reports for the formal filings.