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Pays are now reported by income type.	Pays must now be reported by income type. The Income Stream Type drop-down list has been added to the following windows to allow users to select the income type for each pay code: Create New Payroll Code window Set Pay Code Search Criteria window Pay Code Maintenance - General tab. Each pay can only be linked to a single income stream type and some income stream types require a country code to be selected. For more information about income stream types, see 03.01 Pay code types.	03.02 Creating new pay codes 03.03 Searching for pay codes 03.04 Pay Code Maintenance - General tab
New reporting categories have been added.	The following reporting categories have been added: Allowance - Qualifications/Certificates Allowance - Tool Allowance - Tasks Deduction - Child Support Garnishee Deduction - Child Support Individual - Gross Overtime Individual - Gross Bonuses and Commissions Individual - Gross Director's Fees Ordinary Time Earnings Paid Leave Reportable Employer Superannuation Contribution (RESC) Return to Work Payment.	03.04 Pay Code Maintenance - General tab
New Default Paid Leave Type field.	Organisations can use the Default Paid Leave Type drop-down list on the General tab of Pay Code Maintenance to record pay codes that require associated leave types. Once the default paid leave type is selected for a pay code it is displayed on the: Pay Details tab of Payroll Maintenance Pays tab of Payroll Maintenance Add pay code to current pay window. Change pay codes for current pay window.	03.04 Pay Code Maintenance - General tab
New Maint tab.	Organisations can use the Maint tab of Pay Code Maintenance to view a list of the changes applied to each pay code.	03.05 Pay Code Maintenance - Maint tab
Payroll Maintenance updated to detect income stream errors.	When organisations transition to STP 2, they may have employees with previous pays that include more than one income stream type. Since this is not allowed, the following features have been added to allow organisations to fix pays with multiple income stream types: Payroll Maintenance now displays the Income Stream Errors window if any income stream errors are detected the Pays tab of Payroll Maintenance now includes the Fix button to allow you to fix income stream errors for individual pays.	04.01 Searching for payroll employees 04.03 Payroll Maintenance - Pays tab
New fields to record previous payroll IDs.	Organisations can report the previous payroll ID assigned to employees using the Previous Payroll ID and End Date fields on the General tab of Payroll Maintenance. This change has been introduced to ensure the ATO can track and identify employees when their key identifiers (e.g. payroll ID) have been changed.	04.02 Payroll Maintenance - General tab
New field to record termination reasons.	Organisations can report termination reasons for payroll employees using the Reason field on the General tab of Payroll Maintenance. This field is linked to the luPayrollTerminationReason lookup table, which is pre-populated with AUSGOV termination reasons when organisations are transitioned to STP 2.	04.02 Payroll Maintenance - General tab 06.01 luPayrollTerminationReason lookup table
New pay details fields.	Organisations can use the updated Pay Details tab of Payroll Maintenance to define default pay lines that conform to STP 2. This tab now includes: Country field has been added to record the country for the following income stream types: - Foreign Employment (FEI) - Inbound Assignees to Australia (IAA) - Working Holiday Maker (WHM). Income Stream Type field has been added to record the type of income stream for payments Lump Sum Financial Year field has been added to record the financial year of lump sum payments.	04.04 Payroll Maintenance - Pay Details tab
New Fix button.	Organisations can click the Fix button on the Pays tab of Payroll Maintenance to fix pays with income stream type errors.	04.03 Payroll Maintenance - Pays tab
New Summary area.	The Y.T.D tab of Payroll Maintenance has been updated with a new Summary grid area.	04.07 Payroll Maintenance - Y.T.D. tab
Tax Scale field updated.	The Tax Scale field has been updated on the following tabs: Tax tab of Payroll Maintenance Declarations tab of Payroll Maintenance Summary tab of Current Pay Maintenance. The updated Tax Scale field populates characters 1, 2, 3 and 5 of the new Tax Treatment Code field. Additionally, when the Tax Scale field is selected on the Declarations tab, the Tax Free Threshold and HELP/SSL or TSL Debt fields are automatically selected if required by the tax scale.	04.05 Payroll Maintenance - Tax tab 04.06 Payroll Maintenance - Declarations tab 05.03 Current Pay Maintenance - Summary tab
New Tax Treatment Code field.	The Tax Treatment Code on the Tax tab of Payroll Maintenance is used to determine the rate of withholding applied to payroll employees. This is a six character code derived from the values entered into the following fields: Tax Scale field (characters 1, 2, 3 and 5) Medicare Levy Surcharge field (character 4) Medicare Levy Reduction field (character 6).	04.05 Payroll Maintenance - Tax tab
Renamed and updated field.	The Payment Basis field has been renamed to the Employment Basis field. Additionally, the following options have been: added to the drop-down list: - V - Voluntary agreement - D - Death beneficiary - N - Non-employee. removed from the drop-down list: - S - Pension/Annuity Payee.	04.05 Payroll Maintenance - Tax tab 04.06 Payroll Maintenance - Declarations tab
New Tax Offset Amount field.	The Tax Offset Amount field has been added to the Tax tab of Payroll Maintenance. This field specifies the estimated total tax offset amount claimed by the payroll employee on their withholding declaration form.	04.05 Payroll Maintenance - Tax tab
PAYG Summaries have been deprecated.	PAYG Summaries are no-longer official documents, but they can be created upon request. The following updates have been made to deprecate PAYG Summaries: the following fields have been removed from the Tax tab of Payroll Maintenance: - ATO sent copy of PAYG Summary - PAYG Amended - Date. the following warning is displayed when printing PAYG Summaries the PAYG Summaries tab has been removed from Payroll Configuration and Finance Configuration Maintenance. Note: You can still prepare PAYG summaries upon request. See Preparing PAYG payment summaries.	04.05 Payroll Maintenance - Tax tab 07.03 Payroll Configuration - PAYG Summaries tab 08.01 Printing PAYG summaries (STP2)
New Country field.	The Country drop-down list has been added to the following tabs: Pay Details tab of Payroll Maintenance Pays tab of Payroll Maintenance Detail tab of Current Pay Maintenance. Note: Pays with the following income stream types must be submitted with a country code: Foreign Employment Income (FEI) Inbound Assignees to Australia (IAA) Working Holiday Maker (WHM).
New Lump Sum Financial Year field.	The Lump Sum FY field has been added to the following tabs: Pay Details tab of Payroll Maintenance Pays tab of Payroll Maintenance Detail tab of Current Pay Maintenance. Note: The financial year to be reported for pays linked to pay codes with a reporting category of Lump Sum Payment E.
New Edit line button.	Organisations can use the Edit line button to edit individual pay lines on the Detail tab of Current Pay Maintenance.	05.02 Current Pay Maintenance - Detail tab
New Version drop-down list.	Organisations can select the active version of single touch payroll using the Version drop-down list on the General tab of Payroll Configuration.	07.01 Payroll Configuration - General tab
New BMS ID tab	Organisations can use the BMS ID tab of Payroll Configuration to maintain IDs used to uniquely identify business management software applications to the Australian Taxation Office.	07.02 Payroll Configuration - BMS ID tab
Tax rates no-longer able to be edited.	Tax rates can no-longer be edited. The Add and Delete buttons have been removed from the: top grid area of the Tax Rates tab of the Payroll Configuration window HELP Tax Rates tab of the Payroll Configuration window. Note: Tax rates must be loaded from a file provided by Synergetic. See Loading new tax rates.	07.04 Payroll Configuration - Tax Rates tab 07.05 Payroll Configuration - HELP Tax Rates tab
Improved security when loading tax rates.	Loading tax rates has been made more secure by: excluding SQL statements from the tax rates import file encrypting file content to prevent user modifications.

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