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How to make Contributions

Payment

Contribution payments must be received by the Administrator within 10 calendar days (if the 10th day is a Sunday or a public holiday, a gale warning day or a black rainstorm warning day, then it carries through to the following day) after each period for which you pay relevant income to your employees.

For example, if the end of the contribution period is 31st December, contribution payment should be made within the 10 calendar days after 31st December (i.e. on or before 10th January). If 10th January is a Sunday or a public holiday, a gale warning day or a black rainstorm warning day, 11th January will be the last day for payment.

Please note that it is important that you pay the mandatory contributions (for both the employer and the employees) to the Trustee within the prescribed period.

Penalties for Failure to Make Contributions

It is important that you make all the necessary mandatory contributions on or before the Contribution Day, and that these contributions are calculated correctly. Please refer to Appendix IV for penalties imposed if you fail to do so.

Unmatched/mis-calculated contributions

Please note that any unmatched/mis-calculated contributions (i.e. the receipt amount being less than the required contribution total) or the non receipt of employee enrolment information will cause delay in the investment process as the Trustee is not able to invest on the members behalf until the error has been rectified by you. In the meantime you will be in breach of the regulations and may be subjected to penalties. Please refer to Appendix IV for penalties imposed if you fail to rectify the discrepancy in contribution payment.


Payment Methods

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HINTS FOR YOU:

MAKE Contribution within 10 calendar days after contribution period Via any of the following ways:

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Direct Debit Authorization (DDA)

The Direct Debit Authorization service offers you the convenience to make the MPF contributions through a designated bank account to the Trustees MPF account. As and when the Remittance Statement is reconciled, the MPF Trustee will collect the amount from your designated bank account on the contribution date as specified in the DDA registration form. To allow cleared fund of contributions, please reserve at least 5 working days before contribution due date for bank to clear fund. If you are interested in establishing DDA for payment of contributions, please contact the Administrator.

Cheque Payment by post

To ensure Cheque payment to be cleared, cheques should be sent not later than 5 working days before the contribution due date to "CMG Asia Trustee Company Limited, G.P.O. Box 95866, Tsim Sha Tsui Post Office"

  • Cheques must be made payable to "CMG Asia Trustee Co. Ltd. - CCC" with the MPF "Employer Number" marked on the back.
  • The cheque should be accompanied by the completed Remittance Statement


Remittance Statement

When making your first payment, you need to prepare a Remittance Statement provided by the Administrator or using CMG e-payroll system which will list all the employees you have already enrolled in the Scheme. It should be returned together with the contribution payment.

The Statement should contain the following information:

  • Employer Name and Employer Number
  • Member details, i.e. name, HKID number, member category (if applicable) and membership number

You will need to state the following on the Remittance Statement:

  • Amount of the relevant income for each member
  • Employer contributions-mandatory & voluntary (if any)
  • Member contributions-mandatory & voluntary (if any)
  • Period that the Contributions cover
  • Total Contributions

If you elect to generate the first Remittance Statement from your system on paper or electronically, please ensure your MPF "Employer Number" and other requirements as stated above are included.

From the second contribution onwards, the Administrator will prepare a computer generated Remittance Statement for your use.Therefore you may choose not to prepare a new Remittance Statement each time when a contribution is made, but you will need to provide for any changes in each employees relevant income level for the contribution period. Alternatively, you may continue to generate the Remittance Statement from your own system. Please ensure your MPF Employer Number is included.

Details and arrangements are as follows:

Subject to the Administrator receiving the previous months payment by the due date, the Administrator will, prior to the next contribution payment, forward a system generated Remittance Statement to you. This will contain:

  • the exact details of the last contribution made,
  • new employees for whom new Membership Enrolment forms have been received,
  • exclude any employees that were noted on the previous Statement as terminated.

The Remittance Statement will also contain extra blank columns, to allow you to:

  • provide details of any additional employees for whom Membership Enrolment forms must be attached,
  • notify of any changes to employee details,
  • notify of any employee who has terminated employment during the last pay period cycle.

This process will be repeated for every contribution payment.

Checklist for Completing the Remittance Statement

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HINTS FOR YOU:

SEND Remittance Statement for each contribution

Ongoing Checklist:
  • Add full details of new employees
  • Indicate terminated employees during the month and show the last day of employment
  • Ensure both the Employer and Employee contributions comply with legislation (i.e. 5% of relevant income)
  • Double-check the total contribution (both mandatory and voluntary) amount and ensure it agrees with the payment amount
  • Attach Membership Enrolment forms for every new employee
  • Attach Leaving Member Notification form for any terminating employees
  • Return Remittance Statement with Authorized Signature within 10 calendar days after each contribution period
  • For DDA, please reserve at least 5 working days before contribution due date for bank to clear fund
  • For cheque by post, please send not later than 5 working days before contribution due date for bank to clear fund

If any of the above is missing from the Remittance Statement, the Administrator will have to contact you, thereby causing delay. It may delay the allocation of contributions to your employees accounts and result in you breaching the MPF regulations and may be subjected to financial penalties. For details, please refer to the MPF Schemes Ordinance and MPF Schemes (General) Regulation.

Monthly Pay-records

In accordance with the MPF legislation, you are required to provide monthly pay-records to your employees within 7 working days after contribution payment, or after the last contribution payment if there is more than one payment of mandatory contributions during the month concerned. You may use our CMG e-payroll system to generate the monthly pay-records. For details, please refer to e-payroll getting started menu. Alternatively, you can also prepare your own Monthly Pay-records. A pay record must contain:

  • The Relevant Income paid
  • Employer contributions-mandatory & voluntary (if any)
  • Employee contributions-mandatory & voluntary (if any)
  • Date of contribution payment to the Trustee

Please see a sample below for your reference:

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http://www.chamber.org.hk/include/right_mpf.asp

 

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