Because the rules change, they change on dates that are not year end, and a mistake is discovered by an authority rather than by you. Most payroll errors that matter are here.
The deductions and employer contributions a jurisdiction requires, applied to each run and posted to the accounts they belong in.
Rules are configured per jurisdiction and per component, with rates dated so a mid-year change applies from the correct period. Each run shows the calculation rather than just the result.
A rate changes from the sixth of April. Runs before that date use the old rate, runs after use the new one, and neither is recalculated by hand.
This page does not claim which jurisdictions are supported out of the box, or which filings can be submitted. Rates are configured, not shipped, and filing arrangements are yours.
Books posts each deduction and contribution to its own liability account, so what is owed to an authority is a ledger balance rather than a working.
No. They are configured and reviewed, deliberately — a silently changed rate is worse than a prompt.
Where you have configured the rules for it. Multi-country payroll is a configuration exercise, not a switch.
As balances in Books, per authority and per period.
Fourteen days, every module, no card. Or half an hour with someone who will run it on your own records and tell you where it does not help.