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
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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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
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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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