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The payroll tax tables have been released for the 2025 financial year (01 July 2024 to 30 June 2025). You can find a link to download the tax tables and instructions on how to apply them below.


This TaxRates.txt contains Australian FY25 ATO and New Zealand FY25 NZ IRD Tax Rates.


February 2025

WHM

Working Holiday Maker (Tax Scale - HRXX) Update

      (File updated - 21 February 2025)

You are receiving this email as a contact at a Synergetic school known to be sending STP Payroll information to the ATO.
An issue in the 2024 Australian Tax Rates file, TaxRates.txt, which results in potentially incorrect tax being calculated for Working Holiday Makers at a Registered Employer, has been identified.

Given the nature of the tax tables provided by the ATO and how the thresholds work with annual figures rather than per pay,  Synergetic is unable to properly calculate the applicable tax per each pay for WHM staffHRXX Tax Scale employees.  This has caused us to have to zero out the Tax Scale HRXX in TaxRates.txt (the tax rates upload file).

Pay Officers are able to ensure WHM payees are taxed correctly by manually calculating the HRXX tax amount for each pay and adding the amount to be taxed as a pay line for each pay.  More will now need to set the withholding tax rate for HRXX tax scale employees manually, or Synergetic will calculate zero tax for these employees.  

More detail on WHM Tax is available from the ATO at:


Please Download the updated TaxRates.txt below, and upload to your Synergetic instance.
Once this is done a manual Withholding Adjustment pay line for employees with HRXX Tax Scale MUST BE applied, as Synergetic will no longer Auto Calculate Tax for HRXX.


Downloading the tax rates file

  1. Download the tax rates file via the following link:

    TaxRates.txt

  2. Save the file to your preferred file directory.

Loading the tax rates

Warning
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This step should only be performed once you have completed all pays for the FY24 payroll year. If these new tax rates are applied before the last pay is completed, then these new FY25 rates may apply incorrectly to the FY24 financial year.

After downloading the tax rates file, the new rates can be loaded into Synergetic.

To load the tax rates into Synergetic:

  1. Select Module > Payroll > Load Tax Rates.
    The Load Payroll Tax Rates window is displayed.



  2. Click .
  3. Navigate to the file directory where you saved the TaxRates.txt file.



  4. Select the file.
  5. Click .
    The file path is loaded into the Load from Directory field.
  6. Check the file path is correct.
  7. Click .
    The Confirm window is displayed.



  8. Confirm that the File is: Dated 20 February 2025 (FY 2025 - WHM Fix).

  9. Click .
    The tax rates will load and Synergetic will be updated with the new figures ready to use in your first FY 2025 pay.

    Note

    Ensure that you have rolled your payroll into the next financial year (Payroll > Create Next Payroll Year) before creating your first pay in FY25.


Questions?

If you have any questions regarding the above information, please create a Service Desk ticket.

Click here to create a Service Desk ticket.