First pay of the new year: Year End

This checklist is your primary tool for processing your year-end with Dayforce. All tasks are sequentially ordered, and references to other topics are provided. Use this checklist to ensure that all necessary tasks are completed in order and on time.

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Action Deadline

Change terminated employees to On Leave to prevent them from deleting off the payroll after the first run of the year. For a list of terminated employees, review the Terminated Employees Report found in your preliminary balancing report.

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Ensure that tax exemption status codes and claim amounts for employees that have other than the basic exemptions are updated with your first payroll of the new year.

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If you have employees in Quebec, with your first payroll run in 2026 you will need to enter your total Worldwide gross payroll amount (including taxable benefits) for 2025, in order to accurately calculate the Quebec Health Services Fund in the new year.

First pay period in 2026

If you have employees in Quebec, who will turn 73 in the new year, their QPP deduction will stop automatically with pay period one of the new year but you must also change their CPP/QPP status code to Exempt from CPP/QPP on the Compensation tab.Closed From the People menu, select People List > Compensation.

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On the first pay of the year do not select an Employee Status Change of Terminated. Instead, select an Employee Status Change of Leave.

If you select Terminated, the employee is deleted from the payroll after the first run of the year processes.

First pay period in 2026

Tax override calculations for employees with CRA/Revenu Quebec letters (for reductions in taxable remuneration) and/or labour-sponsored tax credits for 2025 will be automatically reset to zero with the first payroll of the new year.

Enter new amounts for 2026 with your first payroll of the new year on the Statutory Deductions page.Closed From the Payroll menu, select Regular Payment > Statutory Deductions.

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If you use Time Off Requests in Powerpay, review and update your 2026 statutory holiday calendar to ensure that the observed dates are appropriate for your organization.

First pay period in 2026
If you use Time Off Requests in Powerpay, review and update your 2026 custom holidays.

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If you require an ROE before your first pay of the year has processed, create it on an extra run. ROE runs are not permitted as the first run of the year.