PAYE and what the staff register is for
If you pay people monthly, tax comes out of their pay and you send it on. The staff register is what makes that figure work.
PAYE in one paragraph
PAYE is the tax your employees owe on their salary. You take it out before you pay them and remit it to a state revenue service, usually by the 10th of the following month. It never goes to the federal service.
It's their tax, but it's your job to send it. That's the part small businesses get caught on.
Which state gets it
PAYE follows where the person lives, not where your shop is. Someone working in your Lagos shop but resident in Ogun is Ogun's to collect.
That's why the staff register asks for each person's state. BizBrada then groups the month's PAYE by revenue service, so you remit each part to the office that's actually owed it.
One office is the normal case. If your people live across two or three states, you'll see two or three groups, each with its own total.
What the staff register does
You enter each person once — name, state, gross pay, pension, NHF. BizBrada uses those lines to work out the PAYE due for the month.
That's all it does. BizBrada isn't a payroll product: it doesn't produce payslips, calculate net pay or move money to anyone. The register exists so the PAYE return is right.
Reliefs
Pension and NHF contributions come off before tax is worked out, so entering them lowers what's due — correctly. Leave them out and you'll overpay.