Taxable Payments Report
From 1.7.25 we have to report Taxable Payments to the ATO if you are using sub-contractors within the building industry. When entering purchases there is a button at the top of the screen where you select "taxable payment" - but this then reports the whole suppliers invoice amount within the report to the ATO. According to the ATO website you only have to report the labour component of a sub-contractors invoice. We receive invoices from sub-contractors where their invoice includes labour and materials - so we should not have to report the material component of their invoice to the ATO. I have made a suggestion to MYOB that a button be put on the far right when entering an invoice - next to the tax column where you could select on a line by line basis when it is for labour - you could tick the box there and if there were material costs - not tick the box. This would then make the reporting to the ATO accurate - in so far as you are only reporting the labour component of sub-contractor payments which is all that the ATO requires to be reported. They do not need material costs reported to them according to their website.
Does anyone have any other suggestions on this matter?