Employers must furnish monthly statements to BHM that include a detailed breakdown of union fees for their employees. These statements must be clearly labelled with the corresponding union number and submitted to BHM's Accounting and Collections department by the designated deadline, which is the 15th day of each month.

BHM collects union and social fund fees from employers for all 24 member associations.

Employers are required to regularly send statements of union fees to member associations and BHM funds.

Monthly wage statements must include a breakdown of all union fees for each employee, clearly indicating the correct union number for BHM collection. This submission should be made prior to the due date, which is the 15th day of every month.

Upon receipt of the statement, claims will be processed in an online banking system unless an alternative payment method has been requested or traditionally used. If payment is not received by the due date, late interest will accrue from the due date until the date of payment. The initial due date is the 15th day of the month following the wages period, and the final due date is the last working day of that month.

BHM accepts statements of union fees electronically. 

Membership fees vary across BHM's affiliated unions.  

For more detailed information about membership fees, including in relation to our social funds, please contact our service desk.  

Statements can be submitted electronically as an XML file (see link on skilagrein.is) or as a SAL document to the e-mail address: skilagreinar@bhm.is. The employee must be marked with the correct union number, the correct collector (BHM 2999) and valid record type in order to submit electronically.

You don't need a username or password to submit fee statements to BHM. 

How to submit union fee statements from a payroll software? 

Self-employed persons and smaller companies that don't submit union fee statements from a payroll system can submit the fees via the electronic statement form linked above. The form is simple to use and displays calculations automatically. Users need to decide which funds they will not pay into by marking them on the form. Keep in mind that an amount has to be entered in both boxes, daytime wages and total wages even though it is the same number as the Science Fund (Vísindasjóður) is calculated from daytime wages. It is also necessary to carefully review the information before pressing the "send" button. A receipt will be sent to the email address provided once the fees have been submitted. 

The electronic statement form is only for employees in the private labour market. Therefore, the form can't be used for example in the case of music teachers in the Icelandic Musicians' Union. A different method is used for those employees. 

The statement form is submitted monthly, that is, for each wage month. 

In case there are no wages paid, there is no need to submit a statement form for that particular month.

How to submit union fee statements electronically?

The initial due date is the 15th day of the month following the wage month. 

The final deadline is the last working day of that same month.

If payment is not received before the due date, interests will be calculated from the due date until the actual payment date.

In the case of payment by transfer, interests are calculated subsequently. However, for payments made with a claim, interests are computed at the time of payment.

By paying a claim that appears in the wage payers online bank. 

Via transfer to BHM's bank account: 0515-26-550000 kt. 630387-2569.

BHM recommends that payments are made via claim rather than by transferring. 

If the claim has not appeared in the online bank the following can apply:

The statement has not been submitted to BHM's Accounting and collections department.

The wage payer has always transferred and needs to inform us that they want a claim in their online bank. 

The collection process starts if premium fees are unpaid on the final due date and no postponement of payment has been agreed upon. 

A warning is sent on the 15th day of the month after the final due date, where a 15-day payment deadline is given. 

A collection letter is sent on the 5th day of the second month after the final due date,  where a 15-day payment deadline is given. 

Defaults are sent to Inkasso for collection after the end of the collection letter deadline. 

An example of August union premium fee statements being overdue:

A warning is sent on October 15th with the deadline of October 30th. 

A collection letter is sent on November 5th with the deadline of November 20th. 

What happens if a union fee statement is not paid?

Address for union fee statements via post:  Bandalag háskólamanna v/BIB, Borgartúni 27, 105 Reykjavík  (Note: We do not reccommend this method of shipment)

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