NZ Payroll remove requirement to have employee date of birth
Please remove the requirement to have a date of birth for an employee.
We have been asking for this to be removed for years, Xero recently told us it was an IRD requirement. We contacted our account manager at Inland Revenue and they said it is not an IRD requirement and that they have been in contact with Xero Payroll to make the field non-compulsory.
The workaround that Xero gives of adding a made up date does not work and causes issues where IRD send letters that the date of birth does not match that client.
It is not a legal requirement for an employee to give an employer their date of birth so currently we cannot use Xero Payroll for those clients and if someone employs someone that wont give a date of birth we need to move payroll programmes which is not ideal.
Raelene Myers
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