How to set up an Employee Share Scheme addition for a New Zealand payroll:
Go to Payroll, Maintenance, General, Additions, and Deductions.
Add an Addition before Tax, Type is Amount with ACC Exempt checkbox selected (for payments to show up under “earnings and/or schedular payments not liable for ACC earners’ levy” on EI).
For payment of Employee Share Scheme (ESS), the user will need to use Manual Calc and Bonus calc with Calculation Type = Lump Sum Payment, in order to tax this as an Extra Pay.
The value will show in the Payday filing Employment Information file and on the report in the ESS column, Gross payment.