The EMP501 Reconciliation Submission issue is a system problem experienced by the South African Revenue Service (SARS) regarding the pre-population of EMP201 declared liabilities on the EMP501 return. This issue has been confirmed by SARS, and they have assured that it will be resolved before the following Monday.

The specific problem occurs when attempting to submit the completed EMP501 to SARS, resulting in an error message (ERROR 0001) indicating that no EMP201 returns were submitted for the reconciliation period. SARS has acknowledged this error and has issued a letter addressing the issue.

According to the letter, the error is encountered even if monthly EMP201 returns have been submitted to SARS. The system fails to pre-populate the EMP201 figures onto the EMP501 return, leading to this error. In light of this, SARS advises those experiencing this error and who have already submitted their monthly EMP201 returns to refrain from submitting the EMP501 return until the following week when SARS expects to have resolved the issue.

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