SSS, PhilHealth and Pag-IBIG are the three contributions every Philippine employer owes, and BIR withholding is the tax you take off each payslip. All four come out of one run, along with 13th month pay, night shift differential and regular holiday pay.
Three agencies on three unrelated schedules, one of them keyed to the last digit of your employer number.
SSS, PhilHealth and Pag-IBIG each want their own file, in their own portal, on their own date. On top of that sit the pay rules that are genuinely Philippine: 13th month pay before Christmas, night shift differential between ten at night and six in the morning, and regular holidays that are paid whether or not anyone worked them.
Checked against SSS, PhilHealth, BIR and DOLE material in September 2026.
Contributions remitted against a payment reference number, with the contribution list submitted in the employer portal.
Last day of the following monthThe remittance window depends on the last digit of your employer number: the 11th to the 15th, or the 16th to the 20th.
By your PEN windowEmployer remittance through Virtual Pag-IBIG. Confirm your own schedule with the fund.
MonthlyThe monthly return, filed and paid through eFPS or eBIRForms.
By the 10th · December by 15 JanuaryReported within 30 days. SSS employment reporting runs on its own forms.
Within 30 daysFor anyone with at least a month of service during the year. Payable in two instalments, but complete by the deadline.
By 24 DecemberThe year’s compensation return with its own alphalist file.
By 31 JanuaryTo each employee by the end of January, and duplicates to the Bureau a month later.
31 January, then 28 FebruaryNo 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.
SSS, PhilHealth and Pag-IBIG contributions and BIR withholding are calculated together from one employee record, so the payslip and the remittances agree.
Thirteenth month pay, night shift differential between 10pm and 6am, and the difference between a regular holiday and a special non-working day are payroll logic, not policy notes.
Each body wants its own format, and the BIR alphalist needs its own file, so each one is generated to the layout that portal expects.
Year-end annualisation, 2316 and the alphalist all read from the same run history, so the reconciliation is a report rather than a rebuild.
Three things a payroll page written two years ago would get wrong.
The Act allows returns to be filed and paid electronically or manually through any authorised agent bank, revenue district office or authorised tax software provider, and classifies taxpayers by size. Filing is no longer tied to one channel.
The BIR online registration system handles registration, TIN and taxpayer updates. Returns still go through eFPS or eBIRForms, a distinction worth getting right before year end.
Rank-and-file employees with at least a month of service are entitled to it, and it interacts with the tax-exempt ceiling on 13th month pay and other benefits.
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