Payday Super

Hi

Am using AccountRight Desktop.

There are 2 parts to my queries.

1. Error message continues to display when paying contractors' super through payroll and is rejected by the ATO. The error message is regarding the Income Type (under the Tax tab) being set to Labour Hire and the Employment Basis set to Other (Not Reported). I was informed this issue was passed on to the Products and Develpment Team in October 2025 and this is still an issue. The ATO has advised they will fine for any payrolls that are rejected, so this is a concern. Is there any timeframe as to when this will be fixed?
2. How to process contractors who are deemed employees under superannuation? As we pay contractors through the Purchases system, currently we run the Purchase Items Report to extract the labour on invoices. As this report comes through by Item rather than by Contractor the report needs to be sorted by Name and then each person's amounts need to be tallied to 1 total. For sole trader contractors we then need to create a MYOB Payroll to have their super obligation recorded for Pay Super. For partnerships/companies we also create a new Purchase to be able to pay a "super allowance" which is paid to their bank account. All this is very labour oriented to obtain the figures to calculate super for contractors. Is there a better/easier way to undertake paying contractor super or will MYOB be implementing a system to better work with contractor payments?
3. As with most businesses, super reports will need to be run to provide to management, same as with payroll, to be approved before payment can be authorised. When downloading the super report the report does not highlight the employee/contractor names, it does not highlight the total for each person nor is there a total of the payment for the report run. These need to be adjusted in Excel so it is easier to read and the total to be paid itemised, then saved to provide to management. The webinar I just attended says there is no extra admin time in doing pay day super, but there is obviously quite a bit more. Being a small business this will take the accounts/payroll person more time to undertake their duties.

Look forward to your responses.