04.05 Payroll Maintenance - Tax tab

You can use the Tax tab of Payroll Maintenance to maintain taxation details for payroll employees. See Payroll Maintenance - Tax tab.

With the release of STP-2:

• PAYG summaries are no-longer considered official documents, so the following fields have been removed from the Tax tab of Payroll Maintenance:
  
  

  • ATO sent copy of PAYG Summary
  • PAYG Amended
  • Date.

  Note: You can still prepare PAYG summaries upon request. See Preparing PAYG payment summaries.
  
  

• the Tax Treatment Code on the Tax tab of Payroll Maintenance to determine the rate of withholding applied to the selected payroll employee. This is a six character code derived from:
  
  

  • Tax Scale field (characters 1, 2, 3 and 5)
  • Medicare Levy Surcharge field (character 4)
  • Medicare Levy Reduction field (character 6).
    
    

• 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.