01 What's new to Single Touch Payroll?
- Richard Kennedy (Unlicensed)
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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:
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. | |
| New reporting categories have been added. | The following reporting categories have been added:
| 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:
| 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:
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| 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. | |
| 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:
| 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:
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 |
| 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:
| 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:
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| 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:
Note: You can still prepare PAYG summaries upon request. See Preparing PAYG payment summaries. | 04.05 Payroll Maintenance - Tax tab |
| New Country field. | The Country drop-down list has been added to the following tabs:
Note: Pays with the following income stream types must be submitted with a country code:
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| New Lump Sum Financial Year field. | The Lump Sum FY field has been added to the following tabs:
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:
Note: Tax rates must be loaded from a file provided by Synergetic. See Loading new tax rates. | |
| Improved security when loading tax rates. | Loading tax rates has been made more secure by:
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