Hi ShieldBooks,
Thank you so much for your post and for the detailed information.
I appreciate your feedback and understand the frustration you're experiencing with the default setting for payrun lodgement in STP (Single Touch Payroll) in your system. It seems that the default setting of automatically choosing "Pay Event Update" rather than "STP file" for lodgement is causing issues, especially for those with extensions to lodge. Currently, the default setting cannot be turned off or deactivated. When the date exceeds the current date, it will consistently record as an update event in your record.
Feel free to post again if you have further queries and one of us will be happy to help.
Regards,
Earl