Enhanced Reporting Requirements or ERR is a newly implemented feature that requires employers to report the details of certain added non-taxable payments made to employees. This is enabled and processed from the 01st of January, 2024. If you want to know more, click here.

The process of adding an ERR is mainly categorised into declaring the payments, running a payroll with the declared payments and then submitting the same report to ROS (Revenue Online Service). Once the report is submitted to ROS, it can be viewed under Bright Expense. You need to have a singular Bright ID enabled for both  Payroll and Bright Expense to see the imported data for Payroll under ERR. 

To make sure you have the same login for both, click here. 

Adding ERR Payments

If you want to declare your ERR payments for singular or multiple employees, follow the steps.

1. Log in to Payroll using your Bright ID. To know how, click here.
2. Select a business which you want to declare your payments for. 
3. Click Settings on the bottom left of your screen.
4. The Settings page opens. Click Additions under the Payroll sub-division.
5. The Additions page opens. You can add new ERR declarations by clicking on Add Additions or edit details relating to ERR under previous Additions. 
6. The Add Addition window opens. 
7. Add a Description as applicable for your declaration.
8. If Active is selected, then the declared ERR becomes available for checking and selection under each employee. If Applicable for all Employees is selected, then the declared ERR becomes automatically declared for every employee under the business. 
9. The Subject To and Pension Schemes are read-only.
10. The Amount Type and Rate Unit are read-only for every Category and Sub Category.
11. The Default Amount for the category Travel and Subsistence is 3.20 This amount can not be changed.
12. Enter the Number of Days and Daily Rates for the category Remote Working Day Allowance. This amount can be changed under Employees if required.
13. If you have to Edit details relating to already existing Additions, click on the drop-arrow and click Open. You can make changes from the dialogue box that opens. 

Declaring ERR Payments

If you have not selected Applicable for all Employees, then you have to check the employees for whom you want to declare the ERR payments individually. To do that, follow the steps.

1. Click Employees under the Employees section on the left tab.
2. Click Additions and Deductions.
3. The declared payments for ERR are auto-populated at the bottom. It shows up as the Description selected. 
4. Select the checkbox under Payroll Applicable to enable the same.
5. You can also change the amount for each employee as necessary.
6. Click Save to save the changes. 

Running a Payroll with ERR Payments

Once the ERR payments are individually declared or made visible to all employees, you can start running and processing a payroll. To do that, follow the steps.

1. Click Run Payroll under the Payroll section on the left tab.
2. Click the Run Payroll button after the page opens. 
3. The Payroll is generated. Click on the payslip for the relevant week.
4. Select the Finalised/Submitted checkbox and click the Finalise button to submit the Payroll.
5. The Payroll is generated. A confirmation message states, "Payslips of all the employees have been finalised. Do you want to view the Gross to Net report now?". Select the Yes or No option as relevant.

Submission to ROS

After the Payroll is generated, follow the steps to submit the same to ROS.

1. Once the payroll is generated and the payslip is finalised, go to the Run Payroll page.
2. Click the drop-down arrow beside the generated payroll.
3. Click Payroll Submit to ROS. The submission is completed. 
4. The details will now be internally imported to Bright Expense under the user who made the changes.