Hi - I have a staff member who I paid for Jury Duty. This has now been refunded in full by the court (Western Australia) and I need to know how to process the refund in MYOB. I set up a separate wage category (Jury Duty payment) when I processed the Jury Payment to the employee in payroll. How do I record the refund?
Thanks
Kate
Hi KathrynN,
Jury duty work is usually processed as a deduction when you create the pay run. This can be done after the court has processed a refund. I recommend reading through the guide available at MYOB Jury Duty Payroll Guide for detailed instructions on handling this properly.
In the meantime, feel free to create a new thread if you need any other help.
Thanks,
Genreve
Hi
I set up a jury duty wage category and paid the employee as normal for the time spent as a juror as instructed by the court.
After submission of payslips showing the normal payment of wages during the jury period the courts reimbursed the full amount of the wage.
The juror didn’t receive any separate allowances - (WA) - process seems different to other states?
How do I record the refund?
Thanks
Kate
Hey KathrynN,
You might want to have a quick chat with your accountant to see if they have a preferred way of entering these transactions. There are a couple of technical methods to handle this, but your accountant can give you the best advice on any tax or payment summary implications. You could simply work out the amount that the employee should receive and manually change the amount if Base Salary to what the employee should have received. Alternatively, you could create a wage category called Jury Service or something similar and set it to use a fixed hourly rate. When the employee’s pay is processed you put in the number of days as a negative against this wage category, which will reduce the employee’s pay.
Best regards,
Doreen
Hi
Still struggling with this.
Why would I want reduce the employees pay? The employee has received their usual pay for the period as juror paid in full by our business and the employee has received no payment direct from the court. A full refund has been received direct to our business account in lieu of the amount paid via wages/payroll to the employee.
It is this court refund to the business that I am unsure of how/where to allocate? I assume my total wages for the year should not include this amount as it has been refunded and so not expensed by the business.
I don't want to affect the employee's wage and super totals received by deducting the amount refunded?
Any help would be appreciated.
Regards
Kate
