BizCortex documentation

German payroll: overview

What the German payroll calculates, what it produces and what you still do by hand.

The German payroll (People, Payroll) calculates the monthly pay slips for companies in Germany: wage tax with solidarity surcharge and church tax according to the official calculation of the Federal Ministry of Finance, social security contributions, mini jobs and midi jobs, company pension, company cars, surcharges for Sunday, holiday and night work, levies U1, U2 and U3, and the employer cost.

Tax and social security attributes are read from the HR personnel record. Payroll never changes them.

German payroll: overview
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Who can use this

  • Owner
  • Admin
  • HR manager
  • Accountant (read, approve, post)

Steps

  1. 1. Prepare the settings

    Enter the employer number, tax office and health insurers in Payroll settings.

  2. 2. Complete the employee data

    Check the payroll data of each employee and add recurring or one off earnings and deductions.

  3. 3. Run payroll

    Create a payroll run per month, calculate, review, approve, post and pay.

  4. 4. File the reports

    Create the contribution statements and DEÜV notifications as files for sv.net and the wage tax return for ELSTER.

Good to know

  • BizCortex does not retrieve ELStAM data from the tax authority. Enter tax class, factor, church tax and child allowances from the ELStAM notice in the personnel record. This is not available yet.
  • sv.net files are created for manual upload. BizCortex is not certified for direct transmission to the social insurance.
  • Not supported yet: several jobs in the transition zone, garnishment tables (a garnishment is a fixed amount), short time work allowance, maternity protection and parental leave as payroll cases, partial retirement, working time accounts in payroll, benefit in kind values for meals and housing, and some flat rate taxations.
  • Parameters marked "to verify" in the settings were not checked against official test data. Check them before productive use.

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