STP Finalisation

[Kegs22]

Hi,

I have a client who had two ATO branch codes in the same financial year, so branch code 06 to 18/02 and Branch code 01 to current period.

I did a back up on the 18/02 to keep branch code 06 seperate.

What I need to know is can I do two finalisations? As I need to report them seperate to ATO as per STP reporting. One in the recovered back up file and one in the current file?

[Neil_M]

Hi @Kegs22 

Live services like STP use certain information in the background of the file specific to that file. If you were to take a backup of that file and record different information, to try and use the same live service it will be treated as the same file. This means you could only perform one finalization.

Whilst a finalization can be undone within the payroll reporting centre, this will flow through to the employee’s MyGov account and remove the finalized information from them. The information will return to those MyGov accounts after it has been finalized.

[Kegs22]

Thank you

Do you have any idea how I can do this reporting to the ATO then?

KInd regards

[Neil_M · Accepted solution]

Hi @Kegs22 

You may want to discuss this with your accountant to get their input and recommendations.

That said one way I could see this being overcome is through the use of a second low cost or free STP service. This could be used to lodge the relevant payroll information for one of the two branch codes to the ATO.

Do note that outside of MYOB products I’m unable to provide a recommendation of a potential third party service that may allow you to resolve this. Your accountant may be able to provide recommendations on this.

[Kegs22]

Thank you for your help, I will look inot that then.