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221.0.40

Issues Resolved New Features Change in Functionality
New Features

Enhanced Reporting Requirements (ERR) | Export added to Sicon Approvals
[RB] Added the ability to export an Enhanced Reporting Requirements (ERR) import for the Office of the Revenue Commissioners of Ireland website. This was brought in to allow Enhanced Reporting of Expenses in Ireland.  An number of changes were required to enable the export to import into the Irish Revenue

The Irish Revenue introduced some legislation changes which requires employers to report details of certain expenses and benefits made to employees and directors which started on 1st January 2024. More information on ERR reporting can be found on the Irish Revenue Site:

https://www.revenue.ie/en/employing-people/becoming-an-employer-and-ongoing-obligations/err-jan-2024/index.aspx

In order for Sicon Approvals to help with these submissions, an Export for Expenses has been created that can be imported up to the Irish Revenue.  For the export to be valid, a number of changes across expenses were required; once you enable ERR in settings, under each Sage connection you can add the Employer PAYE reference that is required when uploading the ERR Import.

Each expense type has to be categorised to be aligned with the Irish Revenue types.  The current list or applicable expense types are:

  • Travel and Subsistence
  • Travel Vouched
  • Travel Unvouched
  • Subsistence Vouched
  • Subsistence Unvouched
  • Site Based Employees
  • Emergency Travel
  • Eating on Site
  • Remote Working Daily Allowance
  • Small Benefits Exemption
  • Non-ERR

Once the expenses are categoried, the other important part is on the employees.  Ideally you need to be able to store the Employee PPSN and Employment Id against each Approvals user, however if these are unknown you can submit the ERR using the Employees address and date of birth.

Information around this feature can be found in the Enhanced Reporting Requirements (ERR) section of the Expenses Module Help & User Guide:


Issues Resolved
  • [RB] Resolved an issue on brand new installs of Sicon Approvals where the first Sage Database Connection would not save and the user would receive the error ‘Could not retrieve current database’.
  • [RB] Resolved an issue with expanding multiple Timesheets in the Timesheet Approval screen duplicating one Timesheet.
  • [RB] Resolved an issue with the SMTP Email Password popup box not closing when a new SMTP Password is successfully entered.
  • [RB] Resolved an issue with appending Spindles ‘Uploaded by’ user on the filename of downloaded attachments. This would result in the file extension being removed and the downloaded attachment file becoming unreadable.

Change in Functionality
  • [RB] Added a more descriptive exception to advise users how to resolve the Sage Nominal Analysis Bug when it occurs.

Date applied: January 10, 2024