IR56G Employer's Notification of Employee Cessation and Departure from HK

IR56G is under Taxation Menu. 

IR56G is the Form to report to IRD for Notification of Departure from Hong Kong. Before doing IR56F, you must input the termination date and termination reason for the terminated employee in Employee Master.

Click the New button to add a IR56G record

Employees with the below criteria will be shown on the list.

• • Your Managed Employees

  • The Termination Date is inputted

  • Hong Kong Income Tax Taxable is checked at Employee Master, Inland Revenue tab

  • Non-Employee for IR56M is not checked at Employee Master, Inland Revenue tab

  • The checkbox option IR56F/G Printed in Employee Master, Inland Revenue tab is not checked

  • No IR56G or IR56F (2018 Format) record exists

  • Total Payroll Amount within the taxation year is greater than zero (if Allow create zero amount IR form even if payroll amount is zero in Taxation Module Setup is not turned on)

  • If Accumulate IR56 Forms by HKID (in Taxation Module Setup) turned on, all those employees with the same HKID are terminated and the latest termination date is within this taxation year.

Select the Employee(s)  that you want to create IR56G record and then click the Proceed button.

After the Click the Proceed, system will accumate the taxable income from the payroll batches within the taxation year, the payroll batches are NOT NECESSARY posted . 

The IR56G record(s) are created and are ready to adjust if any,

Click the Print Button to Print the IR56G. Depending the option of Type of Form, different format of IR56G will be printed out (Original, Additional, Replacement).

If Type of Form is Replacement, the words “REPLACEMENT-PREVIOUS FORM SUBMITTED ON DAY / MONTH /YEAR” will printed at the top right-hand corner.

If Type of Form is Additional, the word “ADDITIONAL” will printed at the top right-hand corner.

Tax File No., Name, Designation are defined at Taxation Module Setup