No monthly tax withholding here, which is exactly why the reporting catches people out. MPF, the IR56 series and the seven-day wage rule, handled in one place.
There is no monthly withholding, and two of the forms are due before the thing they report has happened.
Salaries tax is assessed on the employee, not deducted by you, so payroll here reports rather than withholds. What replaces it is a reporting regime with pre-emptive deadlines: IR56F is due a month before a termination and IR56G a month before someone leaves Hong Kong. A resignation on short notice makes you late by default unless the form is part of the process.
Checked against MPFA, the Inland Revenue Department and the Labour Department in September 2026.
Paid within seven days of the end of the wage period. Not a filing, and still the rule most often broken.
Within seven daysContributions and a remittance statement by contribution day, the 10th for monthly-paid staff, now through eMPF.
By the 10thEnrolled within 60 days of starting, or ten days for casual employees under an industry scheme.
Within 60 daysGiven within seven working days of contributions being made.
Within seven working daysIssued by the Inland Revenue Department in early April, filed within one month.
One month from issueFiled within three months of someone starting.
Within three monthsBoth due no later than one month before the event. For IR56G you also withhold payments until the department issues a release letter.
One month beforeNo rates on this page, deliberately. Contribution rates and wage ceilings change more often than a website does, and a stale number is worse than none. What we publish is the shape of the obligation; the amounts come out of the run.
The same employee record feeds the payslip, the contributions and the reporting, so the numbers cannot disagree with each other.
Hong Kong payroll reports income rather than deducting tax. The employee record carries what the IR56 series needs, so the forms are a export rather than a reconstruction.
BIR56A, IR56B, IR56E, IR56F and IR56G all draw on the same employee record, so the forms are an export rather than a reconstruction.
Because two forms are due a month ahead of the event, a termination has to raise the form at the point it is recorded rather than at month end.
Rules are maintained inside the product for each market we operate in, including the ones that changed here in the last two years.
Three things a payroll page written two years ago would get wrong.
The platform went live in June 2024 and the last scheme migrated on 30 April 2026. One standardised remittance format replaces each trustee’s own, and enrolment and termination go through the platform rather than the trustee.
Severance and long service payments now split into pre- and post-transition portions, and the post-transition portion cannot be offset against MPF. There is a government subsidy scheme, claimed after payment.
Employees are assessed and pay their own salaries tax. Payroll systems built for withholding markets tend to model Hong Kong wrongly, and the error shows up as reporting gaps rather than wrong payslips.
HReasily runs six markets on one platform. Multi-country customers run them in a single cycle with a market-by-market breakdown, rather than reconciling five payroll providers.
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