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Marital Status Validity Period for Payroll

  • September 16, 2026
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Do Gooder (Customer)
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The current design stores Marital Status only as a current value, without an effective-from/to date.

This creates a payroll gap in countries where a change in marital status affects tax treatment.

Example - Switzerland:
An employee is Single and gets married on 15 May. For Swiss withholding tax, a change in civil status can change the applicable tax tariff.

If IFS only stores Marital Status = Married, it cannot determine when the employee became married or which status applied to a particular payroll period.

Proposed Design Change:

Marital Status should have validity period. 

Effective dating supports payroll calculations in countries where marital-status changes have statutory payroll/tax consequences.

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    Hero (Partner)
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    • vickyrohilya
    • Hero (Partner)
    • September 17, 2026

    ​@Iveta Aldana : System will always store current Marital Status o employee, as such there is no validity period. You can create a property code/ free field for Marital status, in case you need to maintain the validity period and that can be used for payroll/tax calculation.

    Vikas Jain
    Do Gooder (Customer)
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    • Iveta Aldana
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    • Do Gooder (Customer)
    • September 17, 2026

    Hello ​@vickyrohilya,

    Thank you for your answer. However, as marital status is sensitive information protected by GDPR. FADP and other local laws, we cannot store it in property fields, which are not included in protected information. Hence this solution is not viable.

    Validity period of marital status affects income tax and thus important for payroll in several countries, hence the idea for IFS to include it in their standard design.

    Thank you.

    Iveta

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