Duplicated Payroll for one staff
I had paid one staff member early last week for the prior week and to make my life easier I had planned to just do the payment now and then reflect that when doing payroll. I plan to do that by paying him the difference now and not use the usual aba file for this purpose. Good plan but it meant I had to do two payrolls today - one for the single staff member and one for the rest of the staff.
I did the single staff member first, reported via STP and then did a second payroll for the remaining 40 staff.
When checking on the listing of staff being paid, I had a mental freeze, noticing the special staff being shown
with "standard pay" , correctly not ticked but thinking I had forgotten him and amended this to the hours worked, completely missing out on the fact that I had previously run his payroll individually. I only noticed that once I lodged the bigger payroll file and was going through the payment part where he turned up twice.
No payments were made yet today but how do I adjust STP, ideally without having to completely reeenter 40 staff?
Hi TomD,
Thank you for your post.
You will only need to reverse the duplicate pay for the affected employee, this reversal is then recorded and sent to the ATO - adjusting STP accordingly and the other employees will remain unaffected.
The below link will contain instructions on how to complete a reversal and report it to the ATO:
https://help.myob.com/wiki/display/ar/Changing+a+recorded+pay#expand-Toreverseapay
Let me know if you require further assistance, happy to help.
