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TheTeaLady
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6 years ago
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How to delete an stp report

This week a person did the pays with an error. One employee was paid far too much. The aba file was sent to the bank and the STP report sent.

The pay person however realised their mistake and made another pay for the employee. This created another stp report. which is Not Sent.

At my request the person deleted the second attempt as we have made arrangements with the overpaid employee to shortpay them for the next two weeks (they are in total agreement).

However the stp report remains sitting there "not sent" as its a mistake. What can I do about it? Any suggestions gratefully received.

 

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  • Jenny_0223's avatar
    Jenny_0223
    Contributing User
    6 years ago

    Hi Tracey,

     

    Thanks for your reply.

     

    As the amount already showed as two month's salary, so I can do another August payslip for the with $0 to replace it? Or I need re-issue such a -$6000 payslip to balance the total amount?

     

    Thanks

    Jenny

  • bungy15's avatar
    bungy15
    Ultimate Cover User
    6 years ago

    Hi Jenny_0223 

     

    As you have deleted the incorrect pay, your YTD amounts in MYOB will be correct ie July payruns. So you just need to push those correct YTD amounts through to STP. You do that by processing $0 pays, you can make the payment date todays date. The ATO only look at the YTD amounts and each report we send is time and date stamped. They use that time and date stamp to determine the most recent report, not the pay period dates.

     

    Each STP report overrides the previous one so you only need to make sure the YTD amounts are correct in the latest report.  

     

    Hope this clarifies it

    Tracey

  • Jenny_0223's avatar
    Jenny_0223
    Contributing User
    6 years ago

    Hi Trace, 

     

    Thanks for your reply.

     

    As you said ATO only look at the YTD amounts and each report we send is time and date stamped, is that means I can just leave the August payslip (which created on 31/07/2019) there and wait for August correct payment (will be created on 31/08/2019) to override? As the time and date stamp on the August payslip (which created on 31/07/2019) is 31/08/2019.

     

    Thanks for your patient. 

    Jenny

  • Philip_Van Diem's avatar
    Philip_Van Diem
    Contributing User
    6 years ago

    Hi,

     

    Unfortunately we ran 2 pay runs for the same weekly pay. fortunately we realised before the second run was paid. So we deleted the second pay run and the activity summary and electronic payment register reports are all good BUT the ATO still shows that second pay run :(

     

    Am I correct from reading the responses here, that we dont need to do anything because the run next week will corrrect the ytd figures and the ATO wont think we were paid twice today ?

     

    Thank you for your assistance.

     

    Philip.

  • Theresa_D's avatar
    Theresa_D
    Former Staff
    6 years ago

    Hi Philip_Van Diem 

     

    Correct, the ATO is concerned with the YTD amount. When corrections are made you can either complete a $0 pay run or wait for the next pay run.  More details in the linked article. 

     

    I hope this clarifies. Feel free to utilize the forum if you have other inquiries or advice. 

  • MikeyT's avatar
    MikeyT
    Member
    5 years ago

    Hi Theresa, sorry but the replies all seem to indicate the overstated amount can be corrected in ongoing pay-period(s). We have a situation whereby the PAYGW declared on a pay-run will exceed what the annual total will be for the entire fin year. So lodging zero or encompassing this overstatement into future STP pay-runs with the ATO wont work. Is there a way that you know of this can be fixed in the STP area of teh tax portal. Thanking you... Michael

  • Tracey_H's avatar
    Tracey_H
    Former Staff
    5 years ago

    Hi MikeyT 

     

    Thanks for your post. STP reports the Year-to-date (YTD) amounts each time you declare a payrun and the only amounts the ATO are interested in are the YTD amounts. If an error has been made in a payrun, you can either delete or reverse that pay, then reprocess the pay correctly which will update and correct the YTD amounts in STP. Another option for correcting errors is to create an update event by processing a $0 pay.

     

    The ATO Business Portal will show all payruns as they don't allow deletion of STP reports. However, as they are only looking at the YTD amounts you just need to ensure those figures are correct at all times. You can check that the YTD amounts are correct by going to the Payroll reporting centre and downloading the report for the most recent report sent.

     

    Please let me know if you need further help.

     

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