2025 Year End Payrolls and Christmas Holidays

Processing your Christmas Payroll

Running your final couple of payrolls over the Christmas holidays can be a difficult process especially trying to work around all of the public holidays.

The exact way in which you should run your last few weeks of payroll depends on which day of the week you normally pay your employees.

Please select which day of the week you normally pay your employees, and click on the link to see exactly how you should process your final few payrolls;

You can read more of the details about Week 53 here>>

Can you process your Payroll in advance over the Christmas Holidays?

Yes, indeed you can.

You can go ahead and process your 2025 Week 52 and 2026 Week 1 in 2026 all in advance, using a different pay date for each of them.

You can submit them to Revenue and NAERSA in advance also.

Just process your wages in CollSoft and send the submissions to Revenue. CollSoft will report the payment dates in advance and Revenue will accept them.

NAERSA will also accept your Week 1 MyFutureFund Contribution file in advance, and payment will be scheduled for the pay date reported. In you case this would be Wednesday 1st  January.

No - Payroll 2025 and 2026 are two separate programs and the tax calculations are independent of each other.

You do not need to finish or close your 2025 payroll before you install or run a 2026 payroll.

Importing your employee's data (names, addresses, rates of pay etc.) is an easy process.

We have an article that describes the process here>>

After you import your data into 2026 you will need to download your Revenue RPNs as these are not allowed to be carried forward into a new tax year.

However, if you have AEPNs for Auto Enrolment these will be carried forward