ATO error code: CMN.ATO.PAYEVNT.000199

Hi Kay (KayVeron)

Where the error message says; "The date entered for Pay/Update Date must not be later than today’s date" - that is not looking at what you entered for the Payment Date, but physically the date in time when you submit the pay run.

If you were to put the payment date as 31 August 2022 and sent it on 23rd August 2022, then the software is behaving correctly. You won't be able to prevent this from happening, but don't worry, you can just submit the next pay run as normal.

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I'm getting this message each pay run and now the last 3 pays I have scheduled for the holiday period are now rejected.  How do I fix this.  Also, I am reporting Nil pays (as the Director is not taking payment at the moment)

Hi KellieL 

As I mentioned, the ATO will not accept pay runs with a date in the future. If you have scheduled the pay runs by entering it now with a future date, that will be the cause of the error.

There is no fix, as this is intended behaviour. A workaround would be to either do an update event after the date has passed to send it through again, or send the information through with the following pay run. 

Hope that helps.

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Hi SamaraM 

Sorry, I have schedule pays for several clients and this is the only one it has rejected - so not sure how to fix it.  Nothing has changed, I haven't updated anything - it's just a standard pay that I have been putting through - so unfortunately, my query hasn't been answered

Hi SamaraM 

Perhaps check this with the ATO. A Pay Event 'must be reported on or before the Payment Date' according to the ATO. It therefore makes no sense to say you cannot report a future dated Pay Event - you can - and all other STP Reporting software allows this.

An Update Event however cannot be future date, and an Update event is a correction to a previous Pay Event. If lodging an Update event the Date must be today's date.

Regards

Gavin

Hi KellieL and gavin12345 

Sorry if I was not clear in my explanation. Yes, this is true for an update event - not a pay event.

The reason you are receiving it on this one specific pay is because you have entered no values in the pay run. If a pay run is submitted with no amounts entered, the software treats it as an update event instead of a pay event.

The other pay runs would be submitted successfully if they have amounts entered. For the one with no payments, the only workaround is to wait until the date passes and then do the update event / $0.00 pay run. 

Hope that is more clear on the specific cause of this error.

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Hi SamaraM 

All the pay runs for this financial year have been nil.  So there seems to only be a problem with the last 3 pays I processed through STP2 in AccountRight - which I processed/scheduled pays this week.  Could it be an internal MYOB error with the latest upgrade?   

Hi KellieL 

There are 2 factors in this error:

1. Sending a pay run for $0 which is an event type called update event

2. Sending a pay run with a future date

If you were to send either a $0 pay run for the current date, (what we call an update event)

or

a pay run with a value entered with a future date (what we call a pay event)

Then it would be accepted, like it has with your previously recorded transactions.

As the payment date is in the future and it is an update event, that is the reason you are getting the error.

If you are unsure if the rejected report is indeed recorded as an update event, you can go to payroll reporting > open the report and under the Declaration information, it will state if it was a pay event or update event. 

Hope that makes sense.

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Hi KellieL 

I had the same issue with entering payroll for one employee only with Net Pay $0.00 all others were accepted.
For some reason somewhere there is an issue with process pays with Net $0.00 and I found it only occured after August this year.

When processing a nil pay there should be a question asking is this for a new payrun or an update. You have to choose new payrun otherwise it is processed as an update. This has to be done for each payrun for the employee with nil pay.

The next payrun if you select "new payrun" or similar this should fix your problem.

I hope this has helped.

Regards