Generate IR56F Batch

Generate IR56F Batch is under Taxation Menu.

This screen allows you to generate the IR56F Batch for employees that the termination date is already inputted and IR56F is not yet generated or wish to create batch for replacement.

IR56F Batch No. is a User Definable Key (up to 20 characters) to identify the IR56F batch, the default name is IR56Fyyyymm (where yyyymm is the current year and month). You can design different IR56F Batch No. for different IR56F Batches.

Select each Employer to create different IR56F batches if you have multiple employers per database. 

Select the Taxation Period, only the employees terminated within the taxation period will be inserted into the batch. 

Type of Form

The IR56F tax sheets conformed to the standards of the Hong Kong Inland Revenue Department.  They would contain all the necessary information about your employee and the accumulated earnings over the taxation year. 

Employee

This list contains the terminated employees for whom Hong Kong Income Tax Taxable is checked and IR56F/G Printed is not checked (defined at Employee Master, IR tab.) 

Start IR56F Generation

Click the Start IR56F Generation to generate the IR56F records, the payroll batches within the taxation year are NOT NECESSARY protected and the employees who meet the below criteria will be selected to generate when the Employee dropdown list is [All Eligible].

After that, you can perform the IR56F Amendment for any adjustment. 

By default, IR56F is accumulated per employee number per sheet unless the Accumulate IR56 Forms by HKID is checked in Taxation Module Setup

The IR56F form should be submitted no later than 1 month before the date of cessation of employment of the employee. 

You can also select particular Employee for the Batch. If the Batch is already exists, the employee information will be inserted into the batch.

This screen is not available to the user that does not grant Manage All Employees in Manage Employees by Group.