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Pam001
Experienced User
4 years ago
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Payroll Centre YTD verification report errors

2 Issues.   1. Individual weekly payroll reports sent to the ATO are correct. The YTD Verification report is not picking up all of the wages. 1 employee shows wages until the end of August. The oth...
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  • Tracey_H's avatar
    Tracey_H
    4 years ago

    Hi Pam001 

     

    As explained in the post, AccountRight reports don't match my STP reports, you will need to check the Payroll Activity summary report and Payroll Register summary report. 

     

    The Payroll Activity report gets it's data from payruns processed through Process Payroll. The Payroll Register report gets it's data from the Pay History tab in the employee card. The YTD verification report gets it's figures from the Pay History tab (same as Register) and filters those figures using the ATO reporting categories. 
     
    So when the Activity and Register report match but the YTD verification is different, this indicates the figures are correct in the software but are not being filtered correctly by the YTD verification report. You will need to run the Activity detail report to narrow down which category is causing the issue and then check the ATO reporting category is correct and it hasn't been exempted from PAYG.
     
    Another step is to try processing a $ pay to update the YTD amounts in STP. If you have sent old reports, this will send the YTD amounts from that period, overriding the YTD amounts in the last current report you sent. The ATO use the time stamp of when a report is sent to determine which is the most recent report, not the pay period in the report. So if you send a March report today, the time stamp will be today and the ATO will take that as the current report but the YTD amounts are from March.
     

    With regard to the ATO business portal.. The important thing to check is that your YTD verification report reconciles with your MYOB payroll reports prior to finalising the EOFY. It's the YTD verification report that is sent to the ATO. For peace of mind, you can also confirm that the ATO has the correct YTD amounts by getting your employees to check their myGov accounts.

     

    Please let me know if you need further help.

     

    If my response has answered your enquiry please click "Accept as Solution" to assist other users find this information.

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Pam001
Experienced User

This doesn't help

 

If the ATO reports the YTD amounts from the STP reports then that is fine but how do I check that?. See the detail in my original post.

 

Wages in MYOB are correct. But the YTD verification reports in the Payroll module are incorrect. They are only showing wages up to the end of August and the End of December. We send payroll reports to the ATO every week. Nothing has changed in our processing all year. All of our MYOB Payroll reports show total wages of $64k and are correct but you go to payroll processing YTD verification report and the report shows $31k. Over half the wages are missing.

 

There is no logic to MYOB payroll.

 

 

Tracey_H's avatar
Tracey_H
Former Staff
4 years ago

Hi Pam001 

 

As explained in the post, AccountRight reports don't match my STP reports, you will need to check the Payroll Activity summary report and Payroll Register summary report. 

 

The Payroll Activity report gets it's data from payruns processed through Process Payroll. The Payroll Register report gets it's data from the Pay History tab in the employee card. The YTD verification report gets it's figures from the Pay History tab (same as Register) and filters those figures using the ATO reporting categories. 
 
So when the Activity and Register report match but the YTD verification is different, this indicates the figures are correct in the software but are not being filtered correctly by the YTD verification report. You will need to run the Activity detail report to narrow down which category is causing the issue and then check the ATO reporting category is correct and it hasn't been exempted from PAYG.
 
Another step is to try processing a $ pay to update the YTD amounts in STP. If you have sent old reports, this will send the YTD amounts from that period, overriding the YTD amounts in the last current report you sent. The ATO use the time stamp of when a report is sent to determine which is the most recent report, not the pay period in the report. So if you send a March report today, the time stamp will be today and the ATO will take that as the current report but the YTD amounts are from March.
 

With regard to the ATO business portal.. The important thing to check is that your YTD verification report reconciles with your MYOB payroll reports prior to finalising the EOFY. It's the YTD verification report that is sent to the ATO. For peace of mind, you can also confirm that the ATO has the correct YTD amounts by getting your employees to check their myGov accounts.

 

Please let me know if you need further help.

 

If my response has answered your enquiry please click "Accept as Solution" to assist other users find this information.

  • Pam001's avatar
    Pam001
    Experienced User
    4 years ago

    Thankyou Tracy

     

    sorry for getting Cranky. 

     

    It was the old reports I sent recently that were missed in the past. They messed up the YTD. The Zero pay will fix it.

     

    Thanks

    • Tracey_H's avatar
      Tracey_H
      Former Staff
      4 years ago

      Hi Pam001 

       

      I'm glad to hear that you've got it sorted.  When I was a bookkeeper I used to tell my boss to leave chocolate donuts at my office door and back away slowly...I understand it's a stressful time :smileyhappy:

       

      Take care and please let me know if you need further help.