Salary issue

Letters

REFERRING to last Tuesday’s (May 8) article on page 2 of The National, I would like to add a few comments to what Jerry Wemin has said to head of State agencies and their HR managers with regards to salary issues.
I agree that head of State agencies and their HR managers have failed and should be held responsible for not checking payrolls before being signed off for payment.
A huge variance against the previous payroll should be anindication that something is not right.
Further, I wonder if ever the fortnightly wages and salaries costs are being correctly reconciled against bank statements.
Do they ever remit and report monthly group taxes to Internal Revenue Commissiom?
For the year end, do they ever submit and report their statement-of-earnings for their employees, including from the manager down to the tea boy who are on the payroll, as well as those employees on casual basis?
I am talking about the revenue collection by IRC through wages taxes. If wages and salary costs are properly reconciled, the figures they submit to IRC on their SOE should tie up with the total accumulative cost in their general ledger for the year.
A qualified accountant or a qualified finance officer should be responsible for proper reconciliation of the payroll batches after the pay days so any anomalies can be verified and corrected immediately.

James Hau