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FSS E-Filing Sheet
The FSS E-Filing Sheet offers the employer an alternative channel through which one can submit the FSS files. This spreadsheet is an innovative interface to view the feedback (acknowledgements, errors and warnings) recieved after submitting the FSS Files to the Inland Revenue Secure Site. It also provides a set of format validations for those employers who usually fill in the forms themselves and do not have the facility to produce the FSS files electronically through a payroll.
The spreadsheet uses the same authentication method as used in the IR On-line services, that is, the user needs to provide a valid username, password and a digital certificate.
Once authenticated, data is exchanged between the Excel sheet and the IR On-Line web services.
The Inland Revenue plans to provide access to these web services directly to payroll software to improve the information exchange process. More information about this new service will be published in due course.
A web service running on the IR On-line services website listens for the incoming data and passes it to the IRD system. In turn, this data is validated and feedback is sent back to the spreadsheet. All communication between the sheet and web service is done through a secure transport layer (SSL).
The following is a list of software components required in this exchange of information
IRD Digital Certificate
MS Office 2000 and later
Windows 98/2000/XP with the latest security updates
Internet Explorer 5.5 or later
The personalise and submission functionalities within the excel sheet need additional
components to be installed on the computer. These support files are grouped into one package and made available for download and installation through this link. The components involved are MS SOAP 2.0 and MS CAPICOM 2.0.
Microsoft Installer (MSI) functionality (which allows you to run the Support Files installer) - this comes standard with Windows 2000 and later so users of these systems will not need to do anything. If you are using Win98 then download MSI 1.1+ for Win98 from Microsoft website.
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