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title: Payroll items - Deductions
description: Updating the unit amount of Deduction items Select employees for monthly recurrence
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# Payroll items - Deductions

**Payroll Deduction** is anything that is taken from an employee's pay, whether it be pre or post-tax, other than payroll taxes themselves.  
   
We provide two options for creating the list of your payroll items - Deductions:

#### 1. Most common Deduction items (default)

Swingvy adds the most common (frequently used) Deduction payroll items for you. 

![](https://help.swingvy.com/hs-fs/hubfs/image-png-Oct-22-2024-09-55-57-8287-AM.png?width=1256&height=588&name=image-png-Oct-22-2024-09-55-57-8287-AM.png)

 

This standard Deduction item is created by default and you are **not allowed** to edit the below categories:

 

- **Deduction name:** A unique name for the deductions payroll item
- **Statutory:** Statutory attribution
- **Wage types:** Select either ordinary wage or additional wage
- **IR8A field:** The payroll wage that will be reflected in the IR8A

 

Create your own customized deduction items if necessary. To make further changes to a payroll item***, ***scroll down to **No 2 - Customised Deduction items** to learn how.   
   
However, these default Deduction items can be edited in the:

- Updating the unit amount of Deduction items
- Select employees for monthly recurrence

 

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2\. Customized Deduction items

Select this option if you need to set up your customized Deduction items:

a)   Enter the new Deduction name  
b)   If the Deduction is unit base, select the checkbox and enter the per-unit amount  
c)   Select the statutory which will be subjected to this Deduction

 

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#### **Learn more about Payroll Deduction items:**

 Deduction for the Singapore payroll is divided into 2 types of wages: Ordinary Wages and Additional Wages. The difference between these 2 wages will be on the IR8A.

1. **Name** - Enter a unique name for the new payroll item
2. **Calculate by unit** – When you run payroll, you can calculate the amount by entering the ‘No. of unit’. (Formula: ‘Unit amount’ x 'No. of unit')
3. **Statutory** - tick on the statutory attribute for this new item 
     1. CPF
     2. SDL
     3. IR8A Field
4. **Select employee(s) for monthly recurrence** - Apply to all or selected employees

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