How to upload "Notice of Employee Cessation IR56F" via Mixed Mode

After the IR56F XML File is generated from Output IR56F Data File. You can follow these procedures to submit the IR56F XML file to eTAX.

To upload the data file via the Mixed Mode, you are not required to be an Authorized Signer or eTAX account holder. However, to complete the whole submission process, you have to pass the Control List (printed after uploading a data file via the Mixed Mode) to an Authorized Signer for signature on all the pages. The signed paper Control List should then be sent back to Inland Revenue Department. 

Go to the home page of the Inland Revenue Department and click the e-Filing Employer's Return Services icon.

• https://www.ird.gov.hk/eng/welcome.htm

Start: Read the "Step" page and click Continue 

• Step Page

Step 1: Read the "Important Note" page and click Continue.

• Read Important Notes

Step 2: Select Mixed Mode and click Continue

• Select Service

Step 3: Preparation of Data File

• Enter Employer's Reference and Select IR56 Form Data File

• Confirm Employer's Information

Step 4: Getting ready for Submission

• Check Control List

• Enter Designation of Authorized Signer and email address

Step 5: Sign and / or Submit

• Sign and / or Submit

Step 6: Acknowledgement

• Acknowledgement

• Simulated Control List

Reference

• Online Demo on Uploading a Data File via Mixed Mode (IR56F) (ird.gov.hk)🡕 

• 網上示範：經混合模式上載資料檔案 (IR56F) (ird.gov.hk)🡕