Single Touch Payroll reporting

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Single Touch Payroll reporting

The Australian Tax Office (ATO) has created streamline payroll reporting for employers. This process will transmit payroll and YTD information through the AccountEdge Pro program to the ATO. You must have OS 10.13 or later installed to use this feature.

What information is sent to the ATO (and how do I fix mistakes)?

Only your employees' year to date figures are sent to the ATO. This means if you need to change anything you've submitted, simply make the change in the next pay (or correct the incorrect pay) and the next time you do a pay run the latest year to date totals will be sent.

For more information about working with Single Touch Payroll, see this support note.

To send payroll data to the ATO.

The Single Touch Payroll Setup must be completed before selecting Send to ATO option.

1

Select the pay run to be submitted.

2

Enter the name of the Authorised Sender.

3

Click Send to ATO.

To create an Update Event

1

Go to the Payroll command centre and click Payroll Reporting. The Payroll Reporting window opens.

2

Click Create Update Event. The Create Update Event window opens.

3

Select Update Event from the drop down list in the Type field. A list of employees appears.

4

Click the Create Update Event button. The Create Update Event window appears.

5

Select from the list of employees to report updated payroll data to the ATO.

6

Enter the name of the Authorised Sender.

7

Select Final Submission, if applicable.

8

Click Send to ATO.

9

Click Close to close the window.

To finalise an employee

1

Go to the Payroll command centre and click Payroll Reporting. The Payroll Reporting window opens.

2

Click Create Update Event. The Create Update Event window opens.

3

Choose the Payroll Year you're finalising.

4

Select the employees to be finalised and enter the Authorised Sender.

5

Select the Final Submission option and click Send to ATO.

6

Click Close to close the window.

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Processing your payroll

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Setup Single Touch Payroll (STP)

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Reviewing payroll liabilities

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