Returned super payments for subcontractor

Hi LesleyMCTG,

 

Thanks for your post. You’re right that the returned super article doesn’t go into much detail for subcontractors. For AccountRight, the supported way to pay super for a contractor/subcontractor is to process it through payroll rather than through the supplier payment side. If the subcontractor is normally paid from the invoices they send you, they’ll generally need to be set up in two places:

 

• as an employee so you can process their super, and
• as a supplier so you can continue paying their invoices as usual.

When you’re ready to repay the returned contributions, process a pay for the subcontractor and enter only the super amount in that pay, with no other amounts included. Once processed, it can then be reported to the ATO through STP. So in this case, now that the reason for the return has been sorted, the next step would be to reprocess those outstanding super amounts through payroll using the contractor’s employee card. You can also use this help article as a guide: Superannuation 

 

 

Regards,

Sai