Foreign Employment

The Foreign Employment form contains the transaction types that are used to fill the Foreign Employment Payment Summary.

All but the Australian tax withheld transaction type allow you to select all of transaction types, which in turn allow you to select Pay, Deduction, Tax or Employer Cost types. The payment summary looks at the values on pays and journals, so the amounts for the payment summary can be entered by journals.

You must apportion the amount reported in the Lump Sum A or Lump Sum E fields using the number of days accrued for foreign service and Australian service. The amount of the lump sum payment for the days of foreign service must be journalled to the Lump Sum A or E transaction type set on this tab. The rest is reported on the individual non-business payment summary against the transaction types set here.

Options Reference

Each option and field on the form is described below. Mandatory options and fields are highlighted in red.

Gross payments

Highlight and select the transaction types that contain the gross payments and allowances that make up assessable foreign income.

Australian tax withheld

Select the tax transaction type for Australian tax withheld from the gross payments field above.

Foreign tax paid

Select the tax transaction type for foreign income tax paid that is a withholding type tax paid to a foreign government on any income in the gross payments field above.

Lump Sum A

Select the transaction type for Lump Sum A payments that relate to the number of days of foreign service.

Lump Sum E

Select the transaction type for Lump Sum E payments that relate to the number of days of foreign service.