IRP5 Codes Lists and Meanings


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An IRP5 is a summary of all your payslips for the year. The IRP5/IT3(a) discloses the total employment remuneration earned for the year of assessment and the total amount of employees’ tax deducted or withheld.

IRP5 Codes Meanings

3601 – Income (Generally for the basic amounts received as salary)



3605 – Annual Payments (This is normally used for annual bonuses received outside salary payments or one-off payments)

3606 – Commission Payments (This is for commissioned received for services rendered which are paid separately from salaries)

3701 – Travel Allowances (Sometimes when an employee must travel on the job he is given an allowance to facilitate his travel. This is not necessarily taxable, but is documented.)

3702 – Reimbursive Travel Allowance (This is when the travel has been made in the employee’s pocket, and the employer then returns the money spent on travel back to the employee.)

3703 – Reimbursive Travel Allowance (non-taxable refunds to employees)

3713 – Other Allowances – Taxable (This is a collection of the money paid to the employee in order to facilitate the purchase of things like cell phones, computers, or any other tools that can serve for him to carry out the job, or for personal entertainment.)

 3810 – Fringe Benefit – this is for fringe benefits afforded the employee by the employer, outside his main salary and pension plan. This is for something like the company’ contribution to medical aid (the amount recorded must agree with that entered into code 4474)

The total of the income received is therefore categorized as Gross Employment Income (Taxable) – Code 3699 and Non-Taxable Income – Code 3696. This is for any income received that is non-taxable.

Deductions/Contributions/Information

This heading is for Employee salary deductions and any contributions that are deducted by the company so as to be paid in the interest of the employee.

 4001 – This is for the total pension fund contributions paid or supposedly paid by employee (in this code you may also include both employee and employer contribution)

 4003 – This is for the total provident fund contributions paid or deemed paid by the employer on behalf of the employee (this may also include both employee and employer contribution)

 4005 – This has been touched before as fringe benefits, and so the amount stated here must tally with what is put in that section as well. 

4006 – This is for the total amounts paid or deemed paid by the employer for retirement annuity fund contributions. 

 4472 – This is for money paid into the Employer’s pension fund for the benefit of the employee.

 4473 – This is for money paid in the form of the Employer’s provident fund contributions. 

 4474 – This is for money paid into the Employer’s medical scheme for the benefit of the employee.

 4582 – This is for money paid to the employee for allowances and benefits (travel-related).

 4497 – This is a summary of the total deductions and contributions for the period

Tax Credits and/Employee Contributions

 4102 – PAYE (this reflects the total amount of money as PAYE that was deducted from the employee and already paid during the period in review)

 4116 – Medical scheme fees tax credit (this amount reflects the total amount of the medical scheme fee tax credits that have already been deducted)