Payroll Practice and Administration Certification

Overview

If you want to become a payroll specialist or update your skills, take the Payroll Practice and Management Online Training Program. Payroll is one of the fastest-changing career fields in the business world today. Constant fluctuation in government rules and regulations make it difficult to keep up.

The Payroll Practice and Administration Course will teach you all facets of payroll, from the basics to the complexity of fringe benefits, taxation, and garnishments. If you’re new to the field, you’ll acquire solid skills and knowledge of payroll rules and regulations. If you have payroll experience, this program will refresh your skills and keep you up-to-date with regulations.

Programme Aim

  1. To teach Payroll and HR Staff, Self Employed Business People and Professionals to calculate payroll manually.
    It is of critical importance that people who work in and are responsible for payroll to understand what the computer actually does to ensure that pay is calculated accurately
  2. To teach responsible persons to:
  • meet the demands of estimating net pay in advance
  • correctly treat with the pay of someone who leaves or starts a job during the year
  • explain to employees how the various entries on their payslip are arrived at

The PPA seeks to equip each participant with the ability to understand the requirements of the Jamaican payroll tax laws in order to confidently prepare payslips, explain them and make remittances and returns accurately and on time.

Who Should Attend?

The programme is designed for all Jamaicans but particularly those who are:

  1. completely new to payroll
  2. experienced using a computerised payroll but have little or no manual experience
  3. substitutes in a payroll department
  4. HR personnel responsible to advice colleagues and managers
  5. self-employed, including professionals
  6. accounting staff and managers
  7. legal officers and advisors

Programme Outline (7 Days)

Seminar (1-Day) – Overview (Certificate of Participation)
The Seminar gives an overview of the programme. You are introduced to the laws governing payroll preparation and their requirements.
You leave the Seminar:

  • Equipped to do a basic payroll without the use of payroll software. You learn about:
  • Employment contracts
  • Payroll calculation formula and determination of net pay
  • Gross Pay – taxable and non-taxable
  • Tax free benefits and allowances
  • You are also introduced to or reminded of payroll best practices and payroll security and efficient deployment of payroll resources

Levels 1-3 (2-Days each) – Workshops (Insyte Certificate – on completion of Level 3)
The three levels cover, in depth, the legal and administrative framework involved in the determination of pay and payroll preparation (both simple and complex), reporting and remittance procedures.
The Laws covered include:

  1. Income Tax – do you know for example, the penalty and interest charges on late payment of taxes? What are the tax benefits for pensioners and non-residents? Exemptions to PAYE and Special cases including Pension
  2. NIS – are you aware of the death and disability benefits, who are entitled to them and how to apply for them. Are there NIS health benefits?
  3. NHT – are there funeral grants under this act, who is entitled and how to benefit? Rate for self-employed persons? Annual Returns deadline?
  4. Ed Tax – do self-employed persons pay Ed. Tax, how much and when. What is the retirement age for men and women?
  5. HEART – which organizations are exempt under this Act? Do self-employed persons pay HEART?
  6. ESOP – still applicable in Jamaica. Benefit?
  7. LRIDA – object of this Act. Who benefits?
  8. Employment Act (with special emphasis on Redundancy calculation) – Do employers have rights?

Method

Step-by-step explanation and calculation of each payroll tax along with exercises in payroll interpretation and preparation of a manual payroll. Tutor assisted makeup of a payslip to ensure compliance with Jamaican statutory requirements
What each Participant receives

  • Tutor-led easy-to-follow practical training
  • Valuable comprehensive Seminar and Workshop handouts including worked examples, tax tables and appendices, schedules of allowances and benefits
  • Certificate of Participation for Seminar attendance and an Insyte Certificate on completion of Level 3
  • Breakfast and lunch
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