STP Update Lodgement
There are times when you must update a Single Touch Payroll (STP) payment — for example, after you've changed an employee's address or corrected an employee's date of birth. After you make the changes, you can update the STP payment on this form.
Options Reference
Each option and field on the form is described below. Mandatory options and fields are highlighted in red.
Search Criteria
You can search for employees to include in the update using one or more of these criteria:
- Pay Groups - Click this field to select the pay group to which the employee(s) belong.
- Branch - Click this field to select the branch of your company if the employee(s) work.
- Employee - Click this field to select individual employees.
You can select more than one option from each list and use more than one list to narrow the search results. For example, if you updated several employees in the Weekly pay group who work at your company's Wellington location, select those options from the Pay Groups and Branch fields to filter the search results.
Year ending 30th June
Select the financial year to which the update applies from this dropdown list.
Final for year
Select this option if this is the final STP lodgement for the year. The final lodgement is a declaration that you've sent the ATO all the required information for the financial year though STP reporting.
Note: If you submit a final lodgement, you don't need to provide payment summaries and a payment summary annual report to the ATO. The ATO has enough data to pre-fill employee information on their tax returns and in the myGov portal.
Search Now
Click this button to return a list of employees who meet the search criteria that you specified. Information about the employees displays in a table on the form.
Select the employees for whom to perform the update by clicking the Select option beside their names.
Create Lodgement
Click this button to create the lodgement and open the STP Lodgement form.
On the STP Lodgement form, select Tick this box to sign this declaration with the AUSkey used by this software and your login details. Then, click Submit to lodge the payment with the ATO.