An additional pathway
You already pay for this every month.
The skills development levy leaves your payroll whether you use it or not. This is how it stops being a tax and starts being a training budget.
First, the money you are already spending
One percent of payroll, every month, to SARS.
If your annual payroll exceeds R500,000, you pay the Skills Development Levy — 1% of payroll — with your monthly EMP201. It is not optional and it is not small. What is optional is whether any of it ever comes back to you.
of your levy is set aside as a mandatory grant, claimable by employers who submit a compliant training plan and report each year.
goes into the discretionary grant pool your SETA awards for learnerships, bursaries and skills programmes.
goes to the National Skills Fund, and the balance covers SETA administration and the QCTO.
Most professional practices submit nothing, claim nothing, and write the levy off as another payroll tax. The mandatory grant portion alone is forfeited every year it goes unclaimed.
The pathway
Make us your Skills Development Facilitator.
An SDF is the person your SETA deals with: the one who plans your training, submits it, reports on it and keeps you compliant. Appointing one is a formal step, and it is the step that unlocks everything else.
You appoint us as your SDF
A formal appointment with your SETA. From that point, the compliance work is ours rather than a job nobody in your practice wanted.
We get your compliance in order
SETA registration confirmed, levy position reconciled, and your training profile documented properly — the groundwork most employers have never done.
We submit your WSP and ATR
The Workplace Skills Plan and Annual Training Report, filed by the annual deadline. This is what makes the mandatory grant claimable at all.
We apply for discretionary funding
With compliance in place and a real training programme already running, we put your practice forward for discretionary grants for the next intake.
You train more people for the same outlay
Where a grant covers stipends or training costs, that funding flows through your payroll — so it still counts toward your own claims and your own scorecard.
What it gives you
Compounding, rather than a one-off.
The learnership on its own is already largely funded by tax. This pathway is what turns a single intake into a standing pipeline — and it gets stronger each year you run it, because a track record is exactly what discretionary funding is awarded against.
Levy money coming back
The mandatory grant portion becomes claimable rather than forfeited, and discretionary funding becomes something you are actually in the running for.
A bigger pipeline, same cash
Grant-funded seats sit alongside the ones you fund directly, so the size of your intake stops being limited purely by what you can spend.
Skills Development points, properly evidenced
Every element documented as it happens — B-BBEE, Employment Equity, ETI and SARS — instead of reconstructed at year end.
One less thing on your desk
WSP, ATR, SETA correspondence and reporting deadlines handled by people who do this full time. You sign; we do the rest.
Further training, if you want it
Once the framework exists, other programmes can run through it — sales and client-service training for your existing staff among them.
Employment that is real
Every funded seat is a young South African in structured work. That is the point of the levy, and almost none of it currently reaches anyone.
Discretionary grants are competitive and sit entirely at the SETA's discretion. A demonstrated track record of training success and graduate employment — with your own matching investment already on the table — puts a strong case forward, but it is never a promise, and we will not present it as one.
Help us change the nation, and take the tax benefit while you do it.The additional pathway
Where to start
Start with the learnership. Add this when you're ready.
Nothing here needs to be decided up front. Most partners run one intake first, see the model work, and take up the levy pathway from year two — by which point there is a track record to apply with.
OneAll Human Capital
Growing people. Building communities.
Put the levy to work, build your own pipeline, and create employment that would not otherwise exist.