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Hi Lisa,
Thanks for your response.
The All Purpose Industry allowance is usually included within the base hourly rate. As such it is considered Ordinary Time Earnings. Any overtime paid is calculated on the rate (inclusive of APIA) as well as all leave paid. It is unlike other allowances which are considered an additional amount payable on top of the base hourly rate.
Whilst it is simple enough to split out the All Purpose Allowance from the base hourly rate and create a seperate allowance code for this, what is not simple is the ability to then calculate overtime or leave payments. For example, overtime is calculated as 150% of base earnings rate including the All Purpose Industry Allowance. As MYOB would require the APIA to shown as a seperate allowance, It is not currently possible in MYOB to calculate overtime on anything other than the base hourly regular rate.
The only way it would be possible to do this is to create multiple paycodes for each employee which is unfathomable and totally unworkable scenario.
Like others, we have elected to not split out the APIA until such time as MYOB makes the changes which would make it STP2 compliant.
I was wanting an update from MYOB but have had no response to date.
Lynne
Hi Lynne
Oh, I was a bit of track with my answer, as I have not encountered All Purpose Industry allowances in any of the job roles that I have held.
I can understand the difficulty (and frustration) with this.
I am sorry that I do not have an answer for you, and it is really unacceptable that a MYOB consultant has not replied and/or addressed your issue.
I am currently having difficulties with the MYOB browser interface, as this does not have the functionality for me to use time billing layout for invoicing in the browser - only using the desktop application.
I did recieve a response, though not what I was wanting. MYOB have no plans in the immediate future to enable anyone using time billing layout for invoices to d this through the web broweser - only using the desktop application.
We all pay our subscriptions, though many of us seem to not have full functionality using MYOB for our work requirements.
Hopefully your issue is resolved soon, and you and others in your predicament can have this issue rectified - especially if it is required for STP2 compliancy.
Take care.
Kind regards
LisaTerese