Paid Parental Leave / Dad and Partner Pay
I don't believe it. Two returns are unable to complete because I get the error message saying there is no ABN entered for Paid Parental Leave in one return, and Dad and Partner Pay in another. N...
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Hi RPD,
Thanks for the question.
According to the ATO website information about completing the 2019 return, item 1 Salary or Wages 2019, the Parental Leave pay, and Dad-and-partner pay should be entered at item 1.
For each "income statement" you ned to provide:
- The payer's Australian Business Number (ABN) or witholding payer number
- The 'Total Australian Tax Widhelp' amounts under Tax Withheld
- The gross payment amount under Income
The reason that MYOB software requires you to provide an ABN for items at Item 1, is because this is part of the requirement set by the ATO for electronic lodgement.
If you beleive that you should be able to submit values at this field and label without providing an ABN, then you will need to submit the return on paper.
So, there is no need for me to be chaining our developers to their desks for this one :smileyhappy:. It's been this way for many years - because that is what the ATO require.
Sorry Matt - The ATO may have changed the rules for 2019 but in the past it was not that way.
Attached is a screenshot of a lodged return with the PAYG schedule not showing any ABN.
So it seems the ATO have changed their requirements for 2019 - The prefill under "Government Payments" now shows an ABN so we will input that number.
I assume the ATO did not tell you about this change as it was not mentioned (IFRC) in the tax webinar?
Anyway, any progress on the next update?
Hi RPD,
We have reviewed this in light of your screenshot and found that the ATO instructions haven't changed from past.
You are allowed to leave ABN blank for entries on the same type of Payment Summary if you have more than 5 payment summarries.
However, with PLS we found last year that if ABN or WPN is not entered on all entries you would recieve CMN.ATO.IITR.000660 validation error from ATO. As 2018 and later are PLS forms only, this was implementd in the software last year to prevent our users from getting rejected returns from ATO.
Remember that the ATO do a LOT more data matching under PLS than what was previously done with ELS - and as such, they gather as much data as possible to match.
As you have mentioned that NOW you do see ATO has provided an ABN on prefill for parental leave payment which was not the case in 2017 or prior years.
