Questions about payroll in Africa

Yes. PayrollMaster calculates PAYE using KRA’s current graduated bands, applies personal relief, and produces the monthly PAYE return in the format KRA’s iTax system expects. Statutory deductions for NSSF, SHIF and the Affordable Housing Levy are calculated on the same payslip and remitted together.

Yes. SHIF replaced NHIF as Kenya’s statutory health deduction in October 2024, and PayrollMaster deducts SHIF on every payslip and remits it to the Social Health Authority. If your payroll still produces an NHIF line, it is producing an incorrect payslip.

PayrollMaster charges per employee per month, billed in Kenyan shillings, with no setup fee. A 25-person Kenyan company pays less than the cost of outsourcing payroll to a local accounting firm, and the price includes statutory filing rather than charging separately for it.

Yes. PayrollMaster calculates net pay in Kenyan shillings and records each employee’s payment method — bank, mobile money, cash or cheque, with multiple accounts and salary splits — then tracks the status of every payment on the run. Payslips are generated and emailed in bulk, and no run is final without an authorised approval.

Yes. Nigerian PAYE is administered by state revenue services, not federally, so PayrollMaster assigns each employee to their state of residence and produces a separate return for each — Lagos staff file with LIRS, Abuja staff with the FCT authority — from one payroll run.

Yes. The Nigeria Tax Act 2025 took effect on 1 January 2026 and replaced the previous PAYE bands, and the Federal Inland Revenue Service is now the Nigeria Revenue Service. PayrollMaster applies the current bands; payroll spreadsheets built on the old table are now producing incorrect deductions.

PayrollMaster is priced per employee per month and billed in naira. There is no setup fee and no separate charge for statutory filing, so a Nigerian company knows its payroll cost as a single per-head number rather than a base fee plus per-filing extras.

Yes. PayrollMaster calculates net pay in naira and records each employee’s payment method — bank, mobile money, cash or cheque, with multiple accounts and salary splits — then tracks the status of every payment on the run. Payslips are generated and emailed in bulk, and no run is final without an authorised approval.

Not yet, despite wide reporting that they did on 1 July 2026. Parliament passed a Bill raising the monthly tax-free threshold from UGX 235,000 to UGX 335,000, but the President declined assent and returned it on 14 July 2026, so the older bands still apply. PayrollMaster maintains the bands centrally and applies whichever ones are law on the day you run payroll.

Local Service Tax is not a normal monthly deduction — it is spread over the first months of the financial year and paid to the local authority. PayrollMaster schedules it across the correct months and stops it automatically, so employees are never over-deducted.

PayrollMaster charges per employee per month, billed in Ugandan shillings, with no setup fee. Statutory filing is included in the price, so payroll cost stays a single predictable per-head figure as headcount grows.

Yes. PayrollMaster calculates net pay in Ugandan shillings and records each employee’s payment method — bank, mobile money, cash or cheque, with multiple accounts and salary splits — then tracks the status of every payment on the run. Payslips are generated and emailed in bulk, and no run is final without an authorised approval.

Yes. Tanzanian employees belong to either NSSF or PSSSF depending on the sector they work in. PayrollMaster records each employee’s fund and routes their contribution to the right one, so a mixed workforce does not need two payroll runs.

Yes. PayrollMaster calculates PAYE using TRA’s current graduated bands, applies the Skills and Development Levy where the employer meets the headcount threshold, and produces the monthly return TRA expects, with Workers Compensation Fund charges calculated on the same run.

PayrollMaster charges per employee per month, billed in Tanzanian shillings, with no setup fee. Statutory filing is included in the price rather than charged per submission, which keeps payroll cost predictable as the team grows.

Yes. PayrollMaster calculates net pay in Tanzanian shillings and records each employee’s payment method — bank, mobile money, cash or cheque, with multiple accounts and salary splits — then tracks the status of every payment on the run. Payslips are generated and emailed in bulk, and no run is final without an authorised approval.

Yes. PayrollMaster calculates PAYE using RRA’s current graduated bands and files the monthly declaration. RSSB pension, maternity, occupational hazard and community health insurance contributions are calculated on the same payslip and remitted on the same schedule.

Yes, substantially. The RSSB pension contribution doubled in January 2025 and rises again in January 2027 under a phased schedule that runs to 2030. PayrollMaster applies the current step centrally, so employers are not re-deriving payroll formulas every January.

PayrollMaster charges per employee per month, billed in Rwandan francs, with no setup fee. Statutory filing is included, so a growing Rwandan company can forecast payroll cost as a single per-head number.

Yes. PayrollMaster calculates net pay in Rwandan francs and records each employee’s payment method — bank, mobile money, cash or cheque, with multiple accounts and salary splits — then tracks the status of every payment on the run. Payslips are generated and emailed in bulk, and no run is final without an authorised approval.

Yes. PayrollMaster calculates PAYE using ZRA’s current graduated bands and files the monthly return, with the Skills Development Levy filed on the same return. NAPSA and NHIMA contributions are calculated on the same payslip and remitted by the 10th of the following month.

Yes. NAPSA contributions are capped at an insurable-earnings ceiling that NAPSA revises every January, tied to national average earnings. PayrollMaster applies the current ceiling automatically, so high earners are not over-deducted — and you are not maintaining a number that changes annually.

PayrollMaster charges per employee per month, billed in kwacha, with no setup fee. Statutory filing is included rather than charged per submission, so payroll cost stays a predictable per-head figure as the team grows.

Yes. PayrollMaster calculates net pay in kwacha and records each employee’s payment method — bank, mobile money, cash or cheque, with multiple accounts and salary splits — then tracks the status of every payment on the run. Payslips are generated and emailed in bulk, and no run is final without an authorised approval.