Payroll for Organisations in Timor-Leste · How Xefe Works — Payroll an Auditor Can Follow · Pricing — One Rate, Agreed Annually · Request Access to Xefe · Accountant Access in Xefe · The Xefe Engine — Timor-Leste Payroll Law in Code · Security for Your Xefe Account · Xefe Documentation — How Timor-Leste Payroll Really Works · Getting Started — Xefe Documentation · Running Payroll — Xefe Documentation · Taxes & Statutory Filings — Xefe Documentation · Invoices, Bills & Expenses — Xefe Documentation · Attendance, Leave & Shifts — Xefe Documentation · Privacy Policy · Terms of ServiceThe Xefe Engine — Timor-Leste Payroll Law in CodeInside Xefe's payroll engine: Timor-Leste labour, tax and INSS law implemented rule by rule, every figure beside its article, and a calculator you can run on your own numbers.Xefe keeps its screens simple because the hard part lives in the engine: Timor-Leste's labour, tax and social-security law, implemented rule by rule and checked against how payroll is really done here.The law, running in codeThe payroll core implements Law 4/2012, Law 8/2008, Law 12/2016, DL 20/2017 and DL 30/2021 — with the statutory text quoted in the code next to the arithmetic it governs. These are tested rules, not lookup tables.Labour law

Normal hours capped at 44 a week and 8 a day

Overtime ×1.5 · rest day and public holiday ×2.0

Night work 21:00–06:00 at +25%

Overtime capped at 16 h/week and 4 h/day, validated on every run

Sick pay: days 1–6 at 100%, days 7–12 at 50%, tracked across the year

30% monthly deduction ceiling, reconciled to the cent

13th month: at least one month's base salary, prorated, payable by 20 December

Severance: at least one month per completed five years of service — the statutory minimum

Wage income tax & withholding

Residents: 10% on wages above $500/month, per employee

Non-residents: flat 10% from the first dollar

Threshold prorated by the actual pay periods in the month

Supplier withholding: eight categories, from rent to construction

Petroleum-regime payrolls are refused, never guessed

Social security

4% employee + 6% employer, uncapped base

Base excludes overtime, per-diems, representation expenses, and travel, food and housing allowances

Base INCLUDES the 13th month and the shift and night-work supplements — not every premium is outside it

Bonuses must be classified before they contribute — the engine will not guess

Configurable, never inventiveRates, thresholds and rounding conventions are settings, with the law as their default — a rate change never needs a new version of Xefe. What is never configurable is inventing a value: if a statutory input is missing, Xefe says so and stops.